German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Kopf
Meaning in English: head
Example
Mir tut schon den ganzen Tag der Kopf weh.
My head has been hurting all day.
Der, die or das?
Kopf is masculine: der Kopf. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Kopf?
Kopf is number 1,045 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 87 times per million words — about once every 12,000 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
- 1,041täglichdaily, every day
- 1,042funktioniertworks, functions
- 1,043der Anteilshare, proportion
- 1,044denkento think
- 1,045der Kopfhead
- 1,046der Arbeitgeberemployer
- 1,047angesichtsin view of, given
- 1,048welcherwhich
- 1,049geführtled, run, guided
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,045
- The most common German nouns#361
- German A1 vocabulary#367
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#95
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.