German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Schatten
Meaning in English: shade, shadow
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Setzen wir uns lieber in den Schatten.
Let's sit in the shade instead.
Der, die or das?
Schatten is masculine: der Schatten. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Schatten?
Schatten is number 4,616 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 58,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,612die Öffnungopening
- 4,613hoffentlichhopefully
- 4,614Clubsclubs
- 4,615körperlichenphysical
- 4,616der Schattenshade, shadow
- 4,617das Berufslebenworking life, career
- 4,618DänemarkDenmark
- 4,619die Kassetill, checkout; health insurer
- 4,620anwesendenpresent (in attendance)
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- The 5,000 most common German words#4,616
- The most common German nouns#2,016
- German A2 vocabulary#916
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#505
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.