German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Kleid
Meaning in English: dress
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Clothes in German list.
Example
Sie trägt ein rotes Kleid.
She's wearing a red dress.
Der, die or das?
Kleid is neuter: das Kleid. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Kleid?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Kleid appears 6.9 times per million words — about once every 140,000 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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