das Museum
Meaning in English: museum
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Am Sonntag ist das Museum kostenlos.
The museum is free on Sundays.
Der, die or das?
Museum is neuter: das Museum. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -um are das in 17 of 24 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Museum in the top 5,000
These forms of Museum are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In Wien gibt es viele tolle Museen.
There are lots of great museums in Vienna.
How common is Museum?
Museum is number 1,567 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 59 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,563zentralencentral
- 1,564Laufecourse (im Laufe: in the course of)
- 1,565ergänztsupplemented, added
- 1,566das Gefühlfeeling
- 1,567das Museummuseum
- 1,568gefallento please, to like; fallen
- 1,569die Informationinformation
- 1,570mithilfewith the help of, using
- 1,571Aktionencampaigns, events, special offers
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,567
- The most common German nouns#609
- German A1 vocabulary#462
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#79
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.