German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Kauf
Meaning in English: purchase
Example
Vor dem Kauf solltest du die Preise vergleichen.
You should compare prices before buying.
Der, die or das?
Kauf is masculine: der Kauf. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Kauf?
Kauf is number 1,457 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 63 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Kauf:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,453die Leitungmanagement, line, pipe
- 1,454beziehungsweiseor rather, respectively
- 1,455verfügbaravailable
- 1,456höherhigher
- 1,457der Kaufpurchase
- 1,458beruflichenprofessional, vocational
- 1,459gegründetfounded
- 1,460teilspartly
- 1,461wärenwould be, were
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,457
- The most common German nouns#550
- German B1 vocabulary#437
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#152
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