das Radio
Meaning in English: radio
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Morgens höre ich gern Radio.
I like listening to the radio in the morning.
Der, die or das?
Radio is neuter: das Radio. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -o are das in 13 of 14 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Radio?
Radio is number 2,526 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 36 times per million words — about once every 28,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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
- 2,522praktischenpractical
- 2,523organisierenorganise
- 2,524die Autobahnmotorway, highway
- 2,525spätlate
- 2,526das Radioradio
- 2,527verbindenconnect, combine
- 2,528hintenat the back, behind
- 2,529Erwartungenexpectations
- 2,530erteiltgiven, granted
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,526
- The most common German nouns#1,051
- German A1 vocabulary#594
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#131
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.