German noun, neuter · CEFR B2
das Militär
Meaning in English: military, armed forces
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Mein Opa war zwei Jahre beim Militär.
My grandpa was in the military for two years.
Der, die or das?
Militär is neuter: das Militär. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Militär?
Militär is number 3,820 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 46,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,816unabhängigeindependent
- 3,817Internetseitenwebsites, web pages
- 3,818fachlichenspecialist, professional, technical
- 3,819Drogendrugs
- 3,820das Militärmilitary, armed forces
- 3,821lerntlearns, studies
- 3,822das Bierbeer
- 3,823echtreal, genuine, really
- 3,824tausendthousand
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,820
- The most common German nouns#1,644
- German B2 vocabulary#850
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#200
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.