das Portal
Meaning in English: portal (website); gateway
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Die Stellenanzeige habe ich auf einem Portal gefunden.
I found the job ad on a website.
Der, die or das?
Portal is neuter: das Portal. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -al are das in 9 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Portal?
Portal is number 2,764 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 32 times per million words — about once every 31,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,760engeclose, narrow, tight
- 2,761die Innovationinnovation
- 2,762vereinenunite, combine
- 2,763Bundesländerfederal states
- 2,764das Portalportal (website); gateway
- 2,765massivmassive, severe; solid
- 2,766Einnahmenincome, revenue
- 2,767der Nachwuchsoffspring; young talent
- 2,768einigerof some (genitive)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,764
- The most common German nouns#1,158
- German B2 vocabulary#529
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#138
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.