German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Schuh
Meaning in English: shoe
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Clothes in German list.
Example
Mir drückt der linke Schuh.
My left shoe is pinching.
Der, die or das?
Schuh is masculine: der Schuh. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Schuh?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Schuh appears 5.0 times per million words — about once every 200,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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- Clothes in German26 words
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