die Person
Meaning in English: person
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Der Eintritt kostet zehn Euro pro Person.
Admission costs ten euros per person.
Der, die or das?
Person is feminine: die Person. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Person in the top 5,000
These forms of Person are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Einen Tisch für vier Personen, bitte.
A table for four, please.
How common is Person?
Person is number 503 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 179 times per million words — about once every 5,600 words. Its most frequent form is Personen (#267).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 58% 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
- 499entwickeltdeveloped; develops
- 500die Regelrule
- 501das Wasserwater
- 502weitfar, wide
- 503die Personperson
- 504erreichenreach, achieve
- 505dir(to) you (dative, informal)
- 506solchesuch
- 507Angeboteoffers, deals
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#503
- The 5,000 most common German words#503
- The most common German nouns#122
- German A1 vocabulary#265
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#39
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.