German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Jänner
Meaning in English: January (Austrian)
Example
Im Jänner fahren wir immer Ski.
We always go skiing in January.
Der, die or das?
Jänner is masculine: der Jänner. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -er are der in 126 of 160 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Jänner?
Jänner is number 4,409 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 54,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,405folgtenfollowed
- 4,406stellvertretendedeputy, acting
- 4,407trockendry
- 4,408oberstetop, highest, supreme
- 4,409der JännerJanuary (Austrian)
- 4,410stattgefundentaken place
- 4,411die Verteidigungdefence
- 4,412die Entstehungorigin, formation, emergence
- 4,413jährlicheannual, yearly
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,409
- The most common German nouns#1,919
- German B1 vocabulary#1,439
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#484
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