der Grund
Meaning in English: reason; ground
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Aus welchem Grund bist du so spät?
Why are you so late?
Der, die or das?
Grund is masculine: der Grund. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Grund in the top 5,000
These forms of Grund are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Aus gesundheitlichen Gründen hört er auf zu arbeiten.
He's stopping work for health reasons.
Es gibt viele Gründe, Deutsch zu lernen.
There are many reasons to learn German.
Im Grunde hast du recht.
Basically, you're right.
How common is Grund?
Grund is number 420 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 208 times per million words — about once every 4,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% 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 500 most common German words#420
- The 1,000 most common German words#420
- The 5,000 most common German words#420
- The most common German nouns#86
- German A2 vocabulary#104
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#24
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.