German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Handel
Meaning in English: trade, retail
Example
Der Handel mit Obst lohnt sich kaum noch.
Trading in fruit hardly pays any more.
Der, die or das?
Handel is masculine: der Handel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Handel?
Handel is number 1,494 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 62 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,490immerhinat least, after all
- 1,491die Infrastrukturinfrastructure
- 1,492die Unterlagendocuments, papers
- 1,493das Smartphonesmartphone
- 1,494der Handeltrade, retail
- 1,495der Aufbaustructure, setup, construction
- 1,496Ärztedoctors
- 1,497die Vielzahlmultitude, large number
- 1,498Gerätedevices, appliances
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,494
- The most common German nouns#568
- German B1 vocabulary#457
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#157
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