die Hand
Meaning in English: hand
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Gib mir deine Hand, wir gehen über die Straße.
Give me your hand, we're crossing the road.
Der, die or das?
Hand is feminine: die Hand. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Hand in the top 5,000
These forms of Hand are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Wasch dir bitte vor dem Essen die Hände!
Please wash your hands before eating!
Iss bitte nicht mit den Händen!
Please don't eat with your hands!
How common is Hand?
Hand is number 655 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 137 times per million words — about once every 7,300 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 61% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Words built on Hand:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 651aktivactive(ly)
- 652ermöglichenenable, make possible
- 653erstmalsfor the first time
- 654erfolgreichsuccessful(ly)
- 655die Handhand
- 656Gästeguests
- 657zweitesecond
- 658die Gesundheithealth; bless you!
- 659bringtbrings
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#655
- The 5,000 most common German words#655
- The most common German nouns#184
- German A1 vocabulary#298
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#64
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.