German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Licht
Meaning in English: light
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Mach bitte das Licht aus.
Please turn off the light.
Der, die or das?
Licht is neuter: das Licht. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Licht?
Licht is number 1,509 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 61 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,505entstehtarises, is created
- 1,506laufendencurrent, ongoing
- 1,507vorhandenavailable, present
- 1,508Staatenstates, countries
- 1,509das Lichtlight
- 1,510geschaffencreated
- 1,511wahrscheinlichprobably, likely
- 1,512brachtebrought
- 1,513Temperaturentemperatures
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,509
- The most common German nouns#579
- German A1 vocabulary#444
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#76
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.