das Klavier
Meaning in English: piano
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Hobbies and sport in German list.
Example
Sie übt jeden Tag eine Stunde Klavier.
She practises the piano for an hour every day.
Der, die or das?
Klavier is neuter: das Klavier. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Klavier?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Klavier appears 7.9 times per million words — about once every 130,000 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.
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.