German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Insel
Meaning in English: island
Example
Im Urlaub waren wir auf einer kleinen Insel.
On holiday we were on a small island.
Der, die or das?
Insel is feminine: die Insel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Insel?
Insel is number 2,684 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 33 times per million words — about once every 30,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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
- 2,680der Verdachtsuspicion
- 2,681das Forumforum
- 2,682die Vorlagetemplate, model; submission
- 2,683gebliebenstayed, remained
- 2,684die Inselisland
- 2,685telefonischby phone
- 2,686beantragtapplied for
- 2,687abendsin the evening
- 2,688schickensend
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,684
- The most common German nouns#1,127
- German A2 vocabulary#598
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#371
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.