German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Iran
Meaning in English: Iran
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Ihre Eltern kommen aus dem Iran.
Her parents are from Iran.
Der, die or das?
Iran is masculine: der Iran. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Iran?
Iran is number 3,279 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 26 times per million words — about once every 38,000 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
- 3,275die Qualifikationqualification
- 3,276traditionelltraditional(ly)
- 3,277erlernento learn, to acquire
- 3,278quasimore or less, virtually
- 3,279der IranIran
- 3,280extraextra, specially, separately
- 3,281großemlarge, great (dative)
- 3,282abgestimmtvoted; coordinated
- 3,283Monatsof the month (genitive)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,279
- The most common German nouns#1,385
- German A2 vocabulary#703
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#356
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.