German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Nord
Meaning in English: north
Example
Zwischen Nord und Süd gibt es große Unterschiede.
There are big differences between north and south.
Der, die or das?
Nord is masculine: der Nord. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Nord?
Nord is number 4,086 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 49,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,082der Spiegelmirror
- 4,083das Schiffship
- 4,084die Jahrgangsstufeyear, grade (at school)
- 4,085erkundento explore
- 4,086der Nordnorth
- 4,087das Lebensjahryear of (one's) life
- 4,088Getränkedrinks
- 4,089gebundenbound, tied
- 4,090vollständigecomplete, full
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,086
- The most common German nouns#1,770
- German A2 vocabulary#847
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#453
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