German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Hafen
Meaning in English: port, harbour
Example
Am Hafen kann man gut Fisch essen.
You can eat good fish down at the harbour.
Der, die or das?
Hafen is masculine: der Hafen. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Hafen?
Hafen is number 4,387 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 54,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,383die Ehefrauwife
- 4,384bedingtpartly, to a limited extent; due to
- 4,385relevanterelevant
- 4,386Einsätzecall-outs, missions, stakes
- 4,387der Hafenport, harbour
- 4,388die Stadtwerkemunicipal utilities
- 4,389der Missbrauchabuse, misuse
- 4,390negativenegative
- 4,391die Unterbringungaccommodation, housing
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,387
- The most common German nouns#1,905
- German A2 vocabulary#885
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#481
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.