der Lebensraum
Meaning in English: habitat, living space
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Der Wald ist Lebensraum für viele Tiere.
The forest is a habitat for many animals.
Der, die or das?
Lebensraum is masculine: der Lebensraum. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -um are usually das (17 of 24 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Lebensraum?
Lebensraum is number 4,979 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 63,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 79% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Lebensraum is built from leben (to live, to be alive) + Lebens (of life (genitive)) + der Raum (room, space, area).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,975die Modefashion
- 4,976das Kabinettcabinet (government)
- 4,977künstlerischeartistic
- 4,978freigegebenreleased, cleared, approved
- 4,979der Lebensraumhabitat, living space
- 4,980bemühento try hard (sich bemühen)
- 4,981Bibliothekenlibraries
- 4,982irgendwosomewhere, anywhere
- 4,983das Frühstückbreakfast
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,979
- The most common German nouns#2,189
- German B2 vocabulary#1,230
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#539
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.