German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Hektar
Meaning in English: hectare
Example
Der Bauer hat fünfzig Hektar Land.
The farmer has fifty hectares of land.
Der, die or das?
Hektar is masculine: der Hektar. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Hektar?
Hektar is number 3,144 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 27 times per million words — about once every 36,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,140chinesischenChinese
- 3,141kostenlosenfree (of charge)
- 3,142normalennormal, ordinary
- 3,143Tierenanimals (dative plural)
- 3,144der Hektarhectare
- 3,145leerempty
- 3,146unterschiedlicherdifferent, various (inflected)
- 3,147kontrolliertchecked, controlled
- 3,148versprechento promise
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,144
- The most common German nouns#1,320
- German B2 vocabulary#642
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#342
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