German noun, masculine · CEFR A2

der Handschuh

Meaning in English: glove

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · derLevel A2

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

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Example

Ich habe einen Handschuh im Bus verloren.

I lost a glove on the bus.

Der, die or das?

Handschuh is masculine: der Handschuh. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Handschuh?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Handschuh appears 1.0 times per million words — about once every 1,000,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.

A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Related words in the list

Handschuh is built from die Hand (hand) + der Schuh (shoe).

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