German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Rad
Meaning in English: bike, wheel
Example
Ich fahre jeden Tag mit dem Rad zur Arbeit.
I cycle to work every day.
Der, die or das?
Rad is neuter: das Rad. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Rad?
Rad is number 3,979 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 47,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,975der Tonsound, tone, clay
- 3,976lasselet, leave (I)
- 3,977der Widerspruchcontradiction, objection, appeal
- 3,978formuliertworded, formulated
- 3,979das Radbike, wheel
- 3,980die Offensiveoffensive, attack
- 3,981dichtdense, thick, tight
- 3,982Krankenhäusernhospitals (dative)
- 3,983Ausstellungenexhibitions
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,979
- The most common German nouns#1,717
- German A2 vocabulary#831
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#211
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