German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Hobby
Meaning in English: hobby
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Hobbies and sport in German list.
Example
Mein Hobby ist Fotografieren.
My hobby is photography.
Der, die or das?
Hobby is neuter: das Hobby. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Hobby?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Hobby appears 8.8 times per million words — about once every 110,000 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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