German noun, masculine · CEFR A2

der Ort

Meaning in English: place, village

Rank 255 of 5,000noun · derLevel A23 forms in the list
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Example

Das ist ein schöner Ort für ein Picknick.

This is a nice place for a picnic.

Der, die or das?

Ort is masculine: der Ort. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Ort in the top 5,000

These forms of Ort are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Orte#2,318
places, townsA2

Am See gibt es viele schöne Orte zum Picknicken.
There are lots of nice places for a picnic by the lake.

Orten#2,420
places (dative plural)B1

An manchen Orten gibt es kein Internet.
In some places there is no internet.

How common is Ort?

Ort is number 255 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 336 times per million words — about once every 3,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 52% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 251deshalbthat's why, therefore
  2. 252gehento go, to walk
  3. 253der Fallcase; fall
  4. 254hattenhad (we/they)
  5. 255der Ortplace, village
  6. 256findetfinds; thinks; takes place
  7. 257deutlichclear, distinct; considerably
  8. 258mirme, to me (dative)
  9. 259oftoften

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