German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Geist
Meaning in English: spirit, mind, ghost
Example
In dem alten Schloss soll ein Geist wohnen.
A ghost is said to live in the old castle.
Der, die or das?
Geist is masculine: der Geist. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Geist?
Geist is number 4,332 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 53,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,328hervorragendeexcellent, outstanding
- 4,329die Persönlichkeitpersonality
- 4,330die Nachbarschaftneighbourhood
- 4,331die Datenbankdatabase
- 4,332der Geistspirit, mind, ghost
- 4,333deutlichenclear, marked
- 4,334akzeptierento accept
- 4,335qualitativqualitative, in quality
- 4,336die Ergänzungaddition, supplement
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,332
- The most common German nouns#1,879
- German B2 vocabulary#1,030
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#475
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