German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Pferd
Meaning in English: horse
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
Example
Meine Schwester reitet jeden Samstag auf einem Pferd.
My sister rides a horse every Saturday.
Der, die or das?
Pferd is neuter: das Pferd. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Pferd?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Pferd appears 11 times per million words — about once every 91,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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