der Moment
Meaning in English: moment
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Einen Moment bitte, ich verbinde Sie.
One moment please, I'll put you through.
Der, die or das?
Moment is masculine: der Moment. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -ment are usually das (6 of 7 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Moment in the top 5,000
These forms of Moment are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Es gibt Momente, die man nie vergisst.
There are moments you never forget.
How common is Moment?
Moment is number 1,284 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 71 times per million words — about once every 14,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,284
- The most common German nouns#465
- German A1 vocabulary#412
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#133
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.