German noun, feminine · CEFR A1
die Kuh
Meaning in English: cow
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
Example
Auf der Wiese steht eine Kuh.
There's a cow standing in the meadow.
Der, die or das?
Kuh is feminine: die Kuh. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Kuh?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Kuh appears 5.7 times per million words — about once every 180,000 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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