German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Gras
Meaning in English: grass
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Nature in German list.
Example
Die Kinder liegen im Gras und schauen in den Himmel.
The children lie in the grass looking up at the sky.
Der, die or das?
Gras is neuter: das Gras. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gras?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Gras appears 6.6 times per million words — about once every 150,000 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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