German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der König
Meaning in English: king
Example
Der König wohnte in einem großen Schloss.
The king lived in a big castle.
Der, die or das?
König is masculine: der König. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is König?
König is number 2,419 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 37 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,415irgendwannsometime, at some point
- 2,416gesetzlichestatutory, legal (inflected)
- 2,417Wortenwords (dative plural)
- 2,418getragencarried, worn
- 2,419der Königking
- 2,420Ortenplaces (dative plural)
- 2,421teuerexpensive
- 2,422dahinthere (to that place), until then
- 2,423speziellenspecial, specific
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,419
- The most common German nouns#1,006
- German A2 vocabulary#550
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#264
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