German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Süden
Meaning in English: south
Example
Im Winter fliegen viele Vögel in den Süden.
In winter many birds fly south.
Der, die or das?
Süden is masculine: der Süden. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Süden?
Süden is number 1,810 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 51 times per million words — about once every 20,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,810
- The most common German nouns#718
- German A2 vocabulary#423
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#191
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.