German noun, masculine · CEFR A2

der Gott

Meaning in English: God, god

Rank 2,086 of 5,000noun · derLevel A22 forms in the list
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Example

Gott sei Dank ist niemandem etwas passiert.

Thank God nobody was hurt.

Der, die or das?

Gott is masculine: der Gott. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Gott in the top 5,000

These forms of Gott are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Gottes#4,166
God's, of GodB1

Um Gottes willen, was ist passiert?
For God's sake, what happened?

How common is Gott?

Gott is number 2,086 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 44 times per million words — about once every 23,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Related words in the list

Words built on Gott:

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,082verlängertextended, renewed
  2. 2,083die Flächearea, surface
  3. 2,084der Frankenfranc(s) (Swiss currency)
  4. 2,085beantwortento answer
  5. 2,086der GottGod, god
  6. 2,087Behinderungendisabilities; obstructions
  7. 2,088wichtigstemost important
  8. 2,089wirtschaftlicheeconomic (inflected)
  9. 2,090Zweckepurposes

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