German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Neubau
Meaning in English: new building, new construction
Example
Wir wohnen in einem Neubau am Stadtrand.
We live in a new-build on the edge of town.
Der, die or das?
Neubau is masculine: der Neubau. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Neubau?
Neubau is number 2,341 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 39 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,337die Adresseaddress
- 2,338die Summesum, amount
- 2,339notwendigenecessary (inflected)
- 2,340erreichbarreachable, accessible
- 2,341der Neubaunew building, new construction
- 2,342cmcm (centimetre/s)
- 2,343jeweiligerespective
- 2,344das Goldgold
- 2,345angenommenaccepted; assumed; supposing
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,341
- The most common German nouns#969
- German B2 vocabulary#409
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#253
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