German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Grad
Meaning in English: degree
Example
Heute sind es dreißig Grad im Schatten.
It's thirty degrees in the shade today.
Der, die or das?
Grad is masculine: der Grad. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Grad?
Grad is number 973 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 92 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#973
- The 5,000 most common German words#973
- The most common German nouns#338
- German A2 vocabulary#236
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#90
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