German noun, masculine · CEFR A1

der Schlüssel

Meaning in English: key

Rank 2,557 of 5,000noun · derLevel A1

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Example

Ich habe meinen Schlüssel verloren.
I've lost my key.

Der, die or das?

Schlüssel is masculine: der Schlüssel. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Schlüssel?

Schlüssel is number 2,557 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 35 times per million words — about once every 28,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

Next to it in the frequency list

2,553der Bundeskanzlerfederal chancellor
2,554rundenround
2,555haltjust, simply (it's like that)
2,556Standortenlocations, sites (dative plural)
2,557der Schlüsselkey
2,558schwierigendifficult
2,559die Auskunftinformation
2,560die Koalitioncoalition
2,561geregeltregulated, settled, sorted

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The most common German nouns#1,067
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The most common German masculine nouns (der)#280

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