der Monat
Meaning in English: month
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Nächsten Monat habe ich endlich Urlaub.
Next month I finally have a holiday.
Der, die or das?
Monat is masculine: der Monat. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -at are der in 8 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Monat in the top 5,000
These forms of Monat are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Wir wohnen seit drei Monaten hier.
We've been living here for three months.
Das Baby ist erst drei Monate alt.
The baby is only three months old.
Die Miete ist am Anfang des Monats fällig.
The rent is due at the start of the month.
How common is Monat?
Monat is number 814 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 109 times per million words — about once every 9,200 words. Its most frequent form is Monaten (#533).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% 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
- 810der Zusammenhangconnection, context
- 811leistenachieve, do; (sich) afford
- 812fahrendrive, go, ride
- 813die Muttermother
- 814der Monatmonth
- 815der Spaßfun
- 816hilfthelps
- 817bestebest
- 818der Austauschexchange
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#814
- The 5,000 most common German words#814
- The most common German nouns#264
- German A1 vocabulary#331
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#75
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.