German noun, masculine · CEFR A1

der Kühlschrank

Meaning in English: fridge

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · derLevel A1

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Rooms and furniture in German list.

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Example

Die Milch steht im Kühlschrank.

The milk is in the fridge.

Der, die or das?

Kühlschrank is masculine: der Kühlschrank. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Kühlschrank?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Kühlschrank appears 9.1 times per million words — about once every 110,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.

A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

Related words in the list

Kühlschrank is built from kühl (cool) + der Schrank (cupboard, wardrobe).

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