German noun, neuter · CEFR B1

das Insekt

Meaning in English: insect

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · dasLevel B11 form in the top 5,000

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.

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Example

Dieses Insekt habe ich noch nie gesehen.

I have never seen this insect before.

Der, die or das?

Insekt is neuter: das Insekt. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Insekt in the top 5,000

Insekt itself is not in the top 5,000, but this form of it is:

Insekten#4,127
insectsB1

Im Sommer sind überall Insekten.
In summer there are insects everywhere.

How common is Insekt?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Insekt appears 1.4 times per million words — about once every 710,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form Insekten (#4,127) is in the top 5,000, though.

B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

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