German noun, masculine · CEFR A2

der Service

Meaning in English: service

Rank 1,345 of 5,000noun · derLevel A22 forms in the list

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Example

Der Service in dem Hotel war ausgezeichnet.

The service at the hotel was excellent.

Der, die or das?

Service is masculine: der Service. 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.

Forms of Service in the top 5,000

These forms of Service are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Services#2,809
servicesB2

Die Bank bietet viele Services online an.
The bank offers many services online.

How common is Service?

Service is number 1,345 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 68 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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

  1. 1,341maximalat most, maximum
  2. 1,342die Bewerbungapplication (job)
  3. 1,343gefragtasked; in demand
  4. 1,344engnarrow, tight, close
  5. 1,345der Serviceservice
  6. 1,346entstandenarisen, created
  7. 1,347erlaubtallowed, permitted
  8. 1,348die Wirkungeffect
  9. 1,349längstlong ago, long since

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