German noun, feminine · CEFR A1
die Post
Meaning in English: post, mail, post office
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Ist heute Post für mich gekommen?
Did any mail come for me today?
Der, die or das?
Post is feminine: die Post. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Post?
Post is number 1,551 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 59 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,547der Auftrittappearance, performance
- 1,548wirkento seem, to work, to have an effect
- 1,549diesmalthis time
- 1,550entwedereither (entweder … oder)
- 1,551die Postpost, mail, post office
- 1,552kämpfento fight, to struggle
- 1,553freiefree, vacant
- 1,554freutpleases, is glad (sich freuen)
- 1,555die Größesize, height
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,551
- The most common German nouns#601
- German A1 vocabulary#454
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#204
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.