German noun, neuter · CEFR B1

das Orchester

Meaning in English: orchestra

Rank 4,420 of 5,000noun · dasLevel B1

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Example

Das Orchester spielt heute Mozart.

The orchestra is playing Mozart today.

Der, die or das?

Orchester is neuter: das Orchester. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Orchester?

Orchester is number 4,420 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 54,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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. 4,416damaligethen, of that time
  2. 4,417das Rezeptrecipe, prescription
  3. 4,418handelteacted, traded; was about
  4. 4,419sicherstellento ensure, to make sure
  5. 4,420das Orchesterorchestra
  6. 4,421starkesstrong
  7. 4,422sichertsecures, safeguards
  8. 4,423lachento laugh
  9. 4,424Kontrollenchecks, inspections

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