das Hochwasser
Meaning in English: flood, high water
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Nach dem Hochwasser war der Keller voller Schlamm.
After the flood the cellar was full of mud.
Der, die or das?
Hochwasser is neuter: das Hochwasser. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Hochwasser?
Hochwasser is number 4,816 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 61,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Hochwasser is built from hoch (high, tall) + das Wasser (water).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,812infragein question (infrage kommen/stellen)
- 4,813GriechenlandGreece
- 4,814das Ereignisevent, occurrence
- 4,815die Bewältigungcoping with, overcoming
- 4,816das Hochwasserflood, high water
- 4,817meisternto master, to cope with
- 4,818frischefresh
- 4,819die Bezahlungpayment, pay
- 4,820geehrthonoured
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,816
- The most common German nouns#2,115
- German B1 vocabulary#1,564
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#254
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.