die Maske
Meaning in English: mask
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Im Bus musste man damals eine Maske tragen.
Back then you had to wear a mask on the bus.
Der, die or das?
Maske is feminine: die Maske. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Maske in the top 5,000
These forms of Maske are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Im Karneval tragen viele Leute bunte Masken.
At carnival many people wear colourful masks.
How common is Maske?
Maske is number 3,433 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 41,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Words built on Maske:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,429entschieddecided
- 3,430sozialersocial
- 3,431umfassendcomprehensive(ly), full(y)
- 3,432das Feedbackfeedback
- 3,433die Maskemask
- 3,434der Geschmacktaste, flavour
- 3,435der Hauptbahnhofmain (railway) station
- 3,436die Telefonnummerphone number
- 3,437gebrauchtneeded; used, second-hand
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,433
- The most common German nouns#1,454
- German A2 vocabulary#734
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#475
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.