German noun, neuter · CEFR A2

das Instrument

Meaning in English: instrument

Rank 3,170 of 5,000noun · dasLevel A22 forms in the list

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Example

Spielst du ein Instrument?

Do you play an instrument?

Der, die or das?

Instrument is neuter: das Instrument. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ment are das in 6 of 7 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Instrument in the top 5,000

These forms of Instrument are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Instrumente#3,707
instrumentsA2

Welche Instrumente spielst du?
Which instruments do you play?

How common is Instrument?

Instrument is number 3,170 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 27 times per million words — about once every 37,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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

  1. 3,166das Landesamtstate office (authority)
  2. 3,167abgegebenhanded in, given away, cast
  3. 3,168hierzulandein this country, here
  4. 3,169viertefourth
  5. 3,170das Instrumentinstrument
  6. 3,171ausgerechnetof all (people/things/times)
  7. 3,172kommunalemunicipal, local
  8. 3,173die Kreativitätcreativity
  9. 3,174die Immobilieproperty, real estate

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