das Original
Meaning in English: original
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Das Original hängt in einem Museum in Paris.
The original hangs in a museum in Paris.
Der, die or das?
Original is neuter: das Original. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -al are das in 9 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Original?
Original is number 4,298 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 53,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,294die Berichterstattungreporting, coverage
- 4,295digitalesdigital
- 4,296Nachteiledisadvantages, drawbacks
- 4,297dürfemay, be allowed (subjunctive I)
- 4,298das Originaloriginal
- 4,299überschrittenexceeded, crossed
- 4,300Infektioneninfections
- 4,301komplexencomplex
- 4,302fassento grasp, to hold, to take in
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,298
- The most common German nouns#1,866
- German B1 vocabulary#1,402
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#223
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.