German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Reis
Meaning in English: rice
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Food and drink in German list.
Example
Zum Curry kochen wir Reis.
We're cooking rice to go with the curry.
Der, die or das?
Reis is masculine: der Reis. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Reis?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Reis appears 11 times per million words — about once every 87,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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