German noun, neuter · CEFR A2
das Schiff
Meaning in English: ship
Example
Wir fahren mit dem Schiff nach Norwegen.
We're going to Norway by ship.
Der, die or das?
Schiff is neuter: das Schiff. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Schiff?
Schiff is number 4,083 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 49,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,079ökologischenecological, organic
- 4,080die Dateifile (computer)
- 4,081denkbarconceivable, possible
- 4,082der Spiegelmirror
- 4,083das Schiffship
- 4,084die Jahrgangsstufeyear, grade (at school)
- 4,085erkundento explore
- 4,086der Nordnorth
- 4,087das Lebensjahryear of (one's) life
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,083
- The most common German nouns#1,768
- German A2 vocabulary#846
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#215
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.