German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Niveau
Meaning in English: level, standard
Example
Der Kurs hat ein ziemlich hohes Niveau.
The course is at a fairly high level.
Der, die or das?
Niveau is neuter: das Niveau. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Niveau?
Niveau is number 1,640 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 56 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,636die Erdeearth, soil, ground
- 1,637erfasstrecorded, registered, gripped
- 1,638interessierteinterested (people)
- 1,639der Brandfire, blaze
- 1,640das Niveaulevel, standard
- 1,641medizinischemedical
- 1,642das Frühjahrspring
- 1,643verfügento have (at one's disposal)
- 1,644die Lebensmittelfood, groceries
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,640
- The most common German nouns#640
- German B1 vocabulary#512
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#83
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.