German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Hemd
Meaning in English: shirt
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Clothes in German list.
Example
Zur Arbeit trägt er immer ein Hemd.
He always wears a shirt to work.
Der, die or das?
Hemd is neuter: das Hemd. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Hemd?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Hemd appears 4.0 times per million words — about once every 250,000 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.
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