German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Glück
Meaning in English: luck, happiness
Example
Viel Glück bei der Prüfung morgen!
Good luck with the exam tomorrow!
Der, die or das?
Glück is neuter: das Glück. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Glück?
Glück is number 1,225 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 75 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,221der Fehlermistake, error
- 1,222der Wettbewerbcompetition
- 1,223genanntenmentioned, named
- 1,224getroffenmet, hit, made (a decision)
- 1,225das Glückluck, happiness
- 1,226der Absatzparagraph, heel, sales
- 1,227der Wunschwish, request
- 1,228der Dienstservice, duty, shift
- 1,229beginnento begin, to start
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,225
- The most common German nouns#442
- German A2 vocabulary#291
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#55
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.