der Neffe
Meaning in English: nephew
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Family members in German list.
Example
Mein Neffe spielt gern Fußball.
My nephew likes playing football.
Der, die or das?
Neffe is masculine: der Neffe. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -e are usually die (170 of 193 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Neffe?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Neffe appears 1.4 times per million words — about once every 690,000 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.
Family: more words
- die Familiefamily
- die Elternparents
- die Muttermother
- der Vaterfather
- das Kindchild
- der Sohnson
- die Tochterdaughter
- der Bruderbrother
- die Schwestersister; nurse
- die Geschwistersiblings, brothers and sisters
- die Großelterngrandparents
- die Großmuttergrandmother
- der Großvatergrandfather
- die Omagrandma, granny
- der Opagrandpa, grandad
- der Enkelgrandson; grandchild
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.