German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Schlaf
Meaning in English: sleep
Example
Du brauchst einfach mehr Schlaf.
You simply need more sleep.
Der, die or das?
Schlaf is masculine: der Schlaf. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Schlaf?
Schlaf is number 3,857 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 46,000 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
- 3,853Meldungenreports, messages, notices
- 3,854aufgeführtlisted, performed
- 3,855realisiertcarried out, implemented
- 3,856älterolder
- 3,857der Schlafsleep
- 3,858das Turniertournament
- 3,859das Babybaby
- 3,860motiviertmotivated
- 3,861grüngreen
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- The 5,000 most common German words#3,857
- The most common German nouns#1,665
- German A2 vocabulary#808
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#426
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.