German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Knochen
Meaning in English: bone
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Body parts in German list.
Example
Der Hund kaut auf einem Knochen.
The dog is chewing on a bone.
Der, die or das?
Knochen is masculine: der Knochen. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Knochen?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Knochen appears 9.6 times per million words — about once every 100,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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