German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Himmel
Meaning in English: sky, heaven
Example
Heute ist der Himmel ganz blau.
Today the sky is completely blue.
Der, die or das?
Himmel is masculine: der Himmel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Himmel?
Himmel is number 2,601 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 34 times per million words — about once every 29,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,597Studiengängedegree programmes
- 2,598Erfolgesuccesses
- 2,599durftewas allowed to
- 2,600bestätigteconfirmed (past)
- 2,601der Himmelsky, heaven
- 2,602unterscheidendistinguish, differ (sich)
- 2,603französischenFrench
- 2,604das Tempospeed, pace
- 2,605umfangreicheextensive, comprehensive
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,601
- The most common German nouns#1,090
- German A2 vocabulary#587
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#287
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