der Hase
Meaning in English: hare; bunny
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
Example
Ein Hase läuft über das Feld.
A hare is running across the field.
Der, die or das?
Hase is masculine: der Hase. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -e are usually die (170 of 193 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Hase?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Hase appears 2.5 times per million words — about once every 400,000 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.
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.