German noun, masculine · CEFR B2

der Protest

Meaning in English: protest

Rank 4,224 of 5,000noun · derLevel B22 forms in the list

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Example

Aus Protest hat sie die Sitzung verlassen.

She walked out of the meeting in protest.

Der, die or das?

Protest is masculine: der Protest. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Protest in the top 5,000

These forms of Protest are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Proteste#4,763
protestsB1

Die Proteste gingen die ganze Nacht weiter.
The protests went on all night.

How common is Protest?

Protest is number 4,224 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

Related words in the list

Protest is built from der Test (test).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 4,220einzigartigeunique
  2. 4,221die Geschäftsstelleoffice, branch office
  3. 4,222barin cash
  4. 4,223teilgenommentaken part, participated
  5. 4,224der Protestprotest
  6. 4,225scheiternto fail
  7. 4,226Speisendishes, food
  8. 4,227Führungskräftemanagers, executives
  9. 4,228Filmenfilms (dative)

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