German noun, neuter · CEFR A1

das Haustier

Meaning in English: pet

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · dasLevel A1

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

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Example

Habt ihr ein Haustier zu Hause?

Do you have a pet at home?

Der, die or das?

Haustier is neuter: das Haustier. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Haustier?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Haustier appears 3.3 times per million words — about once every 300,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.

A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

Related words in the list

Haustier is built from das Haus (house; building) + das Tier (animal).

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