German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Luft
Meaning in English: air
Example
Lass uns ein bisschen an die frische Luft gehen.
Let's go out for a bit of fresh air.
Der, die or das?
Luft is feminine: die Luft. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Luft?
Luft is number 1,211 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 75 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,207das Netzwerknetwork
- 1,208die Runderound, lap
- 1,209dientserves
- 1,210der Einflussinfluence
- 1,211die Luftair
- 1,212zähltcounts
- 1,213eröffnetopened
- 1,214trittsteps, kicks, appears
- 1,215der Kampffight, struggle
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,211
- The most common German nouns#435
- German A2 vocabulary#286
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#151
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.