German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Lkw
Meaning in English: truck, lorry
Example
Ein Lkw blockiert die ganze Straße.
A lorry is blocking the whole street.
Der, die or das?
Lkw is masculine: der Lkw. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Lkw?
Lkw is number 4,343 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 53,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,339das Geschlechtgender, sex
- 4,340die Akzeptanzacceptance
- 4,341durchsetzento enforce, to assert (oneself)
- 4,342benanntnamed
- 4,343der Lkwtruck, lorry
- 4,344Besonderheitenspecial features, peculiarities
- 4,345die Abspracheagreement, arrangement
- 4,346zwischenzeitlichin the meantime, temporarily
- 4,347relevantrelevant
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,343
- The most common German nouns#1,883
- German B1 vocabulary#1,418
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#476
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