German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Hof
Meaning in English: yard, courtyard, farm, court
Example
Die Kinder spielen unten im Hof.
The children are playing down in the yard.
Der, die or das?
Hof is masculine: der Hof. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Hof?
Hof is number 2,902 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 30 times per million words — about once every 33,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,898erfordertrequires
- 2,899der Quadratmetersquare metre
- 2,900die Belastungburden, strain, load
- 2,901der Romannovel
- 2,902der Hofyard, courtyard, farm, court
- 2,903die Herkunftorigin, background
- 2,904genügendenough, sufficient
- 2,905vorgelegtpresented, submitted
- 2,906glaubtbelieves, thinks
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,902
- The most common German nouns#1,231
- German A2 vocabulary#636
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#322
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.