der Raum
Meaning in English: room, space, area
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Der Raum ist hell und ruhig.
The room is bright and quiet.
Der, die or das?
Raum is masculine: der Raum. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -um are usually das (17 of 24 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Raum in the top 5,000
These forms of Raum are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Räume im Erdgeschoss sind sehr hell.
The rooms on the ground floor are very bright.
In allen Räumen gibt es kostenloses WLAN.
There is free Wi-Fi in all rooms.
How common is Raum?
Raum is number 521 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 172 times per million words — about once every 5,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 59% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Words built on Raum:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 517dessenwhose (masculine/neuter)
- 518handeltacts, trades; (sich um) is
- 519zusätzlichadditional(ly), extra
- 520die Entscheidungdecision
- 521der Raumroom, space, area
- 522sorgentake care of, ensure; worry
- 523hättewould have, had (subjunctive)
- 524neuesnew (neuter)
- 525bedeutetmeans
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#521
- The 5,000 most common German words#521
- The most common German nouns#128
- German A2 vocabulary#130
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#36
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.