German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Gold
Meaning in English: gold
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Der Ring ist aus echtem Gold.
The ring is made of real gold.
Der, die or das?
Gold is neuter: das Gold. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gold?
Gold is number 2,344 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 39 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,340erreichbarreachable, accessible
- 2,341der Neubaunew building, new construction
- 2,342cmcm (centimetre/s)
- 2,343jeweiligerespective
- 2,344das Goldgold
- 2,345angenommenaccepted; assumed; supposing
- 2,346interessantinteresting
- 2,347gefährlichdangerous
- 2,348Forderungendemands, claims
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,344
- The most common German nouns#971
- German A2 vocabulary#537
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#123
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.