German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Nebel
Meaning in English: fog, mist
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Weather in German list.
Example
Heute Morgen war dichter Nebel.
There was thick fog this morning.
Der, die or das?
Nebel is masculine: der Nebel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Nebel?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Nebel appears 6.7 times per million words — about once every 150,000 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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