German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Kaffee
Meaning in English: coffee
Example
Möchtest du noch einen Kaffee?
Would you like another coffee?
Der, die or das?
Kaffee is masculine: der Kaffee. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -e are usually die (170 of 193 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Kaffee?
Kaffee is number 2,828 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 31 times per million words — about once every 32,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,824vielfältigdiverse, varied
- 2,825freiwilligvoluntary, voluntarily
- 2,826bliebenstayed (past, plural)
- 2,827betreibtruns, operates
- 2,828der Kaffeecoffee
- 2,829steigernincrease, boost
- 2,830selbstständigindependent; self-employed
- 2,831das Kreuzcross; lower back
- 2,832die Motivationmotivation
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,828
- The most common German nouns#1,185
- German A1 vocabulary#622
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#309
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