German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Pkw
Meaning in English: car (passenger vehicle)
Example
Der Parkplatz ist nur für Pkw.
The car park is for cars only.
Der, die or das?
Pkw is masculine: der Pkw. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Pkw?
Pkw is number 2,545 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 35 times per million words — about once every 28,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,541aktiveactive
- 2,542der Hinblickregard (im Hinblick auf)
- 2,543die Bibliotheklibrary
- 2,544passenfit, suit
- 2,545der Pkwcar (passenger vehicle)
- 2,546sichergestelltensured; seized
- 2,547gabengave (past, plural)
- 2,548RusslandsRussia's (genitive)
- 2,549die Konkurrenzcompetition, competitors
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,545
- The most common German nouns#1,061
- German B2 vocabulary#462
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#277
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.