German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Mantel
Meaning in English: coat
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Clothes in German list.
Example
Im Winter brauche ich einen warmen Mantel.
In winter I need a warm coat.
Der, die or das?
Mantel is masculine: der Mantel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Mantel?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Mantel appears 3.5 times per million words — about once every 290,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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