German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Mai
Meaning in English: May
Example
Im Mai blühen die Bäume.
The trees blossom in May.
Der, die or das?
Mai is masculine: der Mai. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Mai?
Mai is number 403 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 221 times per million words — about once every 4,500 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 56% 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
- 399die Regionregion
- 400zuletztlast, most recently; finally
- 401eigentlichactually, really
- 402mindestensat least
- 403der MaiMay
- 404helfento help
- 405garat all (gar nicht); even
- 406bestenbest
- 407rechtright; quite, rather
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- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#21
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.