German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Ring
Meaning in English: ring
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Er hat ihr einen goldenen Ring geschenkt.
He gave her a gold ring.
Der, die or das?
Ring is masculine: der Ring. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Ring?
Ring is number 4,947 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 63,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 79% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,943das Comebackcomeback
- 4,944die Löschungdeletion, erasure
- 4,945womitwith what, with which
- 4,946die Lückegap
- 4,947der Ringring
- 4,948die Tagesordnungagenda
- 4,949arbeitework (1st person)
- 4,950stiegenrose, climbed (past plural)
- 4,951trennento separate; to split up
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,947
- The most common German nouns#2,175
- German A2 vocabulary#965
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#537
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.