German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Roman
Meaning in English: novel
Example
Sie liest gerade einen spannenden Roman.
She is reading an exciting novel at the moment.
Der, die or das?
Roman is masculine: der Roman. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Roman?
Roman is number 2,901 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 30 times per million words — about once every 33,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,897bezüglichregarding, concerning
- 2,898erfordertrequires
- 2,899der Quadratmetersquare metre
- 2,900die Belastungburden, strain, load
- 2,901der Romannovel
- 2,902der Hofyard, courtyard, farm, court
- 2,903die Herkunftorigin, background
- 2,904genügendenough, sufficient
- 2,905vorgelegtpresented, submitted
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,901
- The most common German nouns#1,230
- German A2 vocabulary#635
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#321
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.