German noun, neuter · CEFR A1

das Haar

Meaning in English: hair; a hair

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · dasLevel A11 form in the top 5,000

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Body parts in German list.

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Example

Da ist ein Haar in meiner Suppe!

There's a hair in my soup!

Der, die or das?

Haar is neuter: das Haar. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Haar in the top 5,000

Haar itself is not in the top 5,000, but this form of it is:

Haare#4,788
hairA1

Sie hat sich die Haare kurz schneiden lassen.
She had her hair cut short.

How common is Haar?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Haar appears 8.0 times per million words — about once every 130,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form Haare (#4,788) is in the top 5,000, though.

A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

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