German noun, masculine · CEFR B2

der Gemeinderat

Meaning in English: town council, councillor

Rank 2,469 of 5,000noun · derLevel B2
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Example

Der Gemeinderat trifft sich jeden Dienstag.

The town council meets every Tuesday.

Der, die or das?

Gemeinderat is masculine: der Gemeinderat. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -at are der in 8 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Gemeinderat?

Gemeinderat is number 2,469 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 37 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

Related words in the list

Gemeinderat is built from die Gemeinde (municipality, community).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,465die Niederlagedefeat
  2. 2,466diejenigenthose (who)
  3. 2,467Jahrhundertsof the century (genitive)
  4. 2,468die Bearbeitungprocessing, editing
  5. 2,469der Gemeinderattown council, councillor
  6. 2,470wächstgrows
  7. 2,471der Nachfolgersuccessor
  8. 2,472bestellenorder, book
  9. 2,473Inhaltencontents (dative plural)

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