das Gewitter
Meaning in English: thunderstorm
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Weather in German list.
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Heute Abend soll es ein Gewitter geben.
There's supposed to be a thunderstorm this evening.
Der, die or das?
Gewitter is neuter: das Gewitter. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gewitter?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Gewitter appears 15 times per million words — about once every 67,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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