German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Hirsch
Meaning in English: deer, stag
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
Im Wald haben wir einen Hirsch gesehen.
We saw a deer in the forest.
Der, die or das?
Hirsch is masculine: der Hirsch. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Hirsch?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Hirsch appears 3.7 times per million words — about once every 270,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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