German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Schwein
Meaning in English: pig
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
Example
Der Bauer hat ein Schwein und zwei Kühe.
The farmer has a pig and two cows.
Der, die or das?
Schwein is neuter: das Schwein. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Schwein?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Schwein appears 2.6 times per million words — about once every 380,000 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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