German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Schaf
Meaning in English: sheep
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
Example
Das Schaf frisst das Gras hinter dem Haus.
The sheep is eating the grass behind the house.
Der, die or das?
Schaf is neuter: das Schaf. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Schaf?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Schaf appears 2.4 times per million words — about once every 420,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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