German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Schnee
Meaning in English: snow
Example
Morgen soll es endlich Schnee geben.
It's supposed to finally snow tomorrow.
Der, die or das?
Schnee is masculine: der Schnee. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -e are usually die (170 of 193 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Schnee?
Schnee is number 3,045 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 29 times per million words — about once every 35,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,041geklärtclarified, settled
- 3,042der Pfarrerpriest, pastor
- 3,043die Präsentationpresentation
- 3,044die Ampeltraffic light(s); coalition
- 3,045der Schneesnow
- 3,046nochmalsagain, once more
- 3,047die Schwangerschaftpregnancy
- 3,048durchschnittlichon average, average
- 3,049durchzuführento carry out
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,045
- The most common German nouns#1,283
- German A1 vocabulary#646
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#334
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.