German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Prinz
Meaning in English: prince
Example
Im Märchen rettet der Prinz die Prinzessin.
In the fairy tale the prince rescues the princess.
Der, die or das?
Prinz is masculine: der Prinz. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Prinz?
Prinz is number 3,881 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 46,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,877berichtetenreported
- 3,878örtlichelocal
- 3,879widmetdedicates, devotes
- 3,880befandwas (located), found oneself
- 3,881der Prinzprince
- 3,882attraktiveattractive
- 3,883das Seminarseminar, course
- 3,884das Bargeldcash
- 3,885stabilstable, sturdy
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,881
- The most common German nouns#1,677
- German B1 vocabulary#1,247
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#428
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