German noun, feminine · CEFR A1

die Person

Meaning in English: person

Rank 503 of 5,000noun · dieLevel A12 forms in the list

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Example

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:

Personen#267
persons, peopleA1

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

  1. 499entwickeltdeveloped; develops
  2. 500die Regelrule
  3. 501das Wasserwater
  4. 502weitfar, wide
  5. 503die Personperson
  6. 504erreichenreach, achieve
  7. 505dir(to) you (dative, informal)
  8. 506solchesuch
  9. 507Angeboteoffers, deals

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