das Gelände
Meaning in English: grounds, site, terrain
Example
Auf dem ganzen Gelände ist Rauchen verboten.
Smoking is forbidden on the entire site.
Der, die or das?
Gelände is neuter: das Gelände. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -e are usually die (170 of 193 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gelände?
Gelände is number 1,840 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 50 times per million words — about once every 20,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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
- 1,836bestehendenexisting
- 1,837besonderesspecial, particular
- 1,838bewegento move
- 1,839zogpulled, moved
- 1,840das Geländegrounds, site, terrain
- 1,841sahsaw, looked
- 1,842größerbigger, taller
- 1,843nenntcalls, names
- 1,844einschließlichincluding
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,840
- The most common German nouns#730
- German B2 vocabulary#274
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#95
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.