German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Ohr
Meaning in English: ear
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Body parts in German list.
Example
Er hat mir etwas ins Ohr geflüstert.
He whispered something in my ear.
Der, die or das?
Ohr is neuter: das Ohr. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Ohr?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Ohr appears 13 times per million words — about once every 77,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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