German noun, masculine · CEFR A2

der Meter

Meaning in English: metre

Rank 680 of 5,000noun · derLevel A22 forms in the list
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Example

Die Haltestelle ist nur hundert Meter entfernt.

The stop is only a hundred metres away.

Der, die or das?

Meter is masculine: der Meter. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -er are der in 126 of 160 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Meter in the top 5,000

These forms of Meter are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Metern#1,682
metres (dative)A2

Nach hundert Metern biegen Sie links ab.
After a hundred metres, turn left.

How common is Meter?

Meter is number 680 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 132 times per million words — about once every 7,600 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 61% 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. 676erwartetexpected; expects
  2. 677leiderunfortunately
  3. 678die Feuerwehrfire brigade
  4. 679der Besuchervisitor(s)
  5. 680der Metermetre
  6. 681geplantplanned
  7. 682gekommencome (past participle)
  8. 683unterwegson the way, out and about
  9. 684Produkteproducts

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