German noun, masculine · CEFR A1

der Oktober

Meaning in English: October

Rank 372 of 5,000noun · derLevel A1

Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.

Learn this word

Add der Oktober to your reviews. Progress stays in this browser.

Test my vocabulary

Example

Im Oktober werden die Blätter bunt.

In October the leaves change colour.

Der, die or das?

Oktober is masculine: der Oktober. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -er are der in 126 of 160 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Oktober?

Oktober is number 372 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 233 times per million words — about once every 4,300 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 56% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 368binam
  2. 369dürfenmay, to be allowed to
  3. 370innerhalbwithin, inside
  4. 371der SonntagSunday
  5. 372der OktoberOctober
  6. 373die Hilfehelp
  7. 374spielento play
  8. 375keinenno, not any (acc. masc., dat. pl.)
  9. 376nächstennext; nearest

In these word lists

Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.