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German noun, masculine · CEFR B1

der Rat

Meaning in English: advice; council

Rank 1,831 of 5,000noun · derLevel B1

False friend: Rat is not “rat”. It is advice, or a council. The animal is die Ratte. More false friends.

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Example

Kannst du mir einen Rat geben?

Can you give me some advice?

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

How common is Rat?

Rat is number 1,831 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 50 times per million words — about once every 20,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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

  1. 1,827die Matratzemattress
  2. 1,828betrifftconcerns, affects
  3. 1,829der Flughafenairport
  4. 1,830zuständigeresponsible, relevant
  5. 1,831der Ratadvice; council
  6. 1,832Kartencards, tickets, maps
  7. 1,833der Chefboss
  8. 1,834die TürkeiTurkey
  9. 1,835nähercloser, nearer; more closely

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