der Schmetterling
Meaning in English: butterfly
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
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Ein bunter Schmetterling fliegt durch den Garten.
A colourful butterfly flies through the garden.
Der, die or das?
Schmetterling is masculine: der Schmetterling. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Schmetterling?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Schmetterling appears 1.3 times per million words — about once every 770,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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