German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Labor
Meaning in English: laboratory, lab
Example
Die Blutprobe wird ins Labor geschickt.
The blood sample is sent to the lab.
Der, die or das?
Labor is neuter: das Labor. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -or are usually der (8 of 9 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Labor?
Labor is number 4,791 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 60,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,787riesigenhuge, giant
- 4,788Haarehair
- 4,789kräftigstrong, powerful; heavily
- 4,790nachhaltigermore sustainable; sustainable
- 4,791das Laborlaboratory, lab
- 4,792türkischenTurkish
- 4,793sechstensixth
- 4,794vertiefento deepen, to consolidate
- 4,795künstlerischenartistic
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,791
- The most common German nouns#2,102
- German B1 vocabulary#1,557
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#251
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