German noun, masculine · CEFR A1

der Rock

Meaning in English: skirt; rock (music)

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · derLevel A1

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Clothes in German list.

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Example

Zur Hochzeit trägt sie einen langen Rock.

She's wearing a long skirt to the wedding.

Der, die or das?

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

How common is Rock?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Rock appears 15 times per million words — about once every 65,000 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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