das Land
Meaning in English: country; land; countryside
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Wir wohnen lieber auf dem Land.
We prefer living in the countryside.
Der, die or das?
Land is neuter: das Land. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Land in the top 5,000
These forms of Land are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Welche Länder hast du schon besucht?
Which countries have you visited?
In den meisten Ländern fährt man rechts.
In most countries people drive on the right.
Im Norden des Landes ist es kühler.
It's cooler in the north of the country.
How common is Land?
Land is number 233 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 368 times per million words — about once every 2,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 52% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Words built on Land:
- DeutschlandGermany
- der Landkreisdistrict, county
- das Auslandabroad, foreign countries
- die Landesregierungstate government
- die Landwirtschaftagriculture, farming
- der Landtagstate parliament
- das Bundeslandfederal state
- das Landesamtstate office (authority)
- das Landgerichtregional court
- die Landeshauptstadtstate capital
- der Landratdistrict administrator
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#233
- The 1,000 most common German words#233
- The 5,000 most common German words#233
- The most common German nouns#30
- German A1 vocabulary#151
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#8
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.