das Instrument
Meaning in English: instrument
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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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:
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
- 3,166das Landesamtstate office (authority)
- 3,167abgegebenhanded in, given away, cast
- 3,168hierzulandein this country, here
- 3,169viertefourth
- 3,170das Instrumentinstrument
- 3,171ausgerechnetof all (people/things/times)
- 3,172kommunalemunicipal, local
- 3,173die Kreativitätcreativity
- 3,174die Immobilieproperty, real estate
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,170
- The most common German nouns#1,331
- German A2 vocabulary#689
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#161
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.