das Orchester
Meaning in English: orchestra
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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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
- 4,416damaligethen, of that time
- 4,417das Rezeptrecipe, prescription
- 4,418handelteacted, traded; was about
- 4,419sicherstellento ensure, to make sure
- 4,420das Orchesterorchestra
- 4,421starkesstrong
- 4,422sichertsecures, safeguards
- 4,423lachento laugh
- 4,424Kontrollenchecks, inspections
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,420
- The most common German nouns#1,924
- German B1 vocabulary#1,443
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#230
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.