German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Mut
Meaning in English: courage
Example
Dafür braucht man viel Mut.
That takes a lot of courage.
Der, die or das?
Mut is masculine: der Mut. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Mut?
Mut is number 2,664 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 34 times per million words — about once every 30,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,660anerkanntrecognised, accepted
- 2,661zerstörtdestroyed
- 2,662schwererheavier, harder
- 2,663galtwas considered; applied (past)
- 2,664der Mutcourage
- 2,665seitenson the part of
- 2,666die BundeswehrGerman armed forces
- 2,667kurzem(seit/vor kurzem) recently
- 2,668der Workshopworkshop
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,664
- The most common German nouns#1,117
- German B1 vocabulary#861
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#296
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