German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Rathaus
Meaning in English: town hall, city hall
Example
Den neuen Pass bekommst du im Rathaus.
You get the new passport at the town hall.
Der, die or das?
Rathaus is neuter: das Rathaus. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Rathaus?
Rathaus is number 2,028 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 45 times per million words — about once every 22,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Rathaus is built from das Haus (house; building).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,024Plätzeplaces, seats, squares
- 2,025Erkrankungenillnesses, diseases
- 2,026die Atmosphäreatmosphere
- 2,027die Regelungrule, regulation, arrangement
- 2,028das Rathaustown hall, city hall
- 2,029Partnernpartners (dative plural)
- 2,030fordertedemanded, called for (past)
- 2,031das Parlamentparliament
- 2,032der Campuscampus
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,028
- The most common German nouns#817
- German A2 vocabulary#471
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#104
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