der Kilometer
Meaning in English: kilometre
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Bis zum nächsten Dorf sind es noch fünf Kilometer.
It's another five kilometres to the next village.
Der, die or das?
Kilometer is masculine: der Kilometer. 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.
Forms of Kilometer in the top 5,000
These forms of Kilometer are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Nach zehn Kilometern machten wir eine Pause.
After ten kilometres we took a break.
Bis zum nächsten Supermarkt sind es nur 2 km.
It's only 2 km to the nearest supermarket.
How common is Kilometer?
Kilometer is number 1,012 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 89 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% 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
- 1,008stimmento be right, to vote
- 1,009gezeigtshown
- 1,010achtento pay attention, to respect
- 1,011die Ausstellungexhibition
- 1,012der Kilometerkilometre
- 1,013Lösungensolutions
- 1,014die Umweltenvironment
- 1,015neunnine
- 1,016beratento advise, to discuss
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,012
- The most common German nouns#353
- German A1 vocabulary#358
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#93
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.