German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Mädchen
Meaning in English: girl
Example
Das kleine Mädchen lacht laut.
The little girl is laughing loudly.
Der, die or das?
Mädchen is neuter: das Mädchen. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Mädchen?
Mädchen is number 943 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 95 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% 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
- 939der Unfallaccident
- 940sorgtensures, provides; takes care
- 941die Pandemiepandemic
- 942verwendenuse
- 943das Mädchengirl
- 944laufenrun, walk
- 945passierthappened; happens
- 946die Initiativeinitiative
- 947schützenprotect
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#943
- The 5,000 most common German words#943
- The most common German nouns#323
- German A1 vocabulary#348
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#38
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.