der Schal
Meaning in English: scarf
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Clothes in German list.
Example
Sie hat mir einen Schal gestrickt.
She knitted me a scarf.
Der, die or das?
Schal is masculine: der Schal. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -al are usually das (9 of 11 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Schal?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Schal appears 1.9 times per million words — about once every 540,000 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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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.