German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Mond
Meaning in English: moon
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Nature in German list.
Example
Heute Nacht scheint der Mond sehr hell.
The moon is shining very brightly tonight.
Der, die or das?
Mond is masculine: der Mond. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Mond?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Mond appears 12 times per million words — about once every 87,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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