German noun, feminine · CEFR A1
die Nacht
Meaning in English: night
Example
Gute Nacht, schlaf gut!
Good night, sleep well!
Der, die or das?
Nacht is feminine: die Nacht. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Nacht?
Nacht is number 595 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 149 times per million words — about once every 6,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 60% 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
- 591genutztused
- 592mittlerweilemeanwhile, by now
- 593die Websitewebsite
- 594nimmttakes
- 595die Nachtnight
- 596die Wohnungflat, apartment
- 597linksleft, on the left
- 598weißknow(s); white
- 599die Umsetzungimplementation, realization
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#595
- The 5,000 most common German words#595
- The most common German nouns#154
- German A1 vocabulary#286
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#51
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.