German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Sex
Meaning in English: sex
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Darüber, wie oft man Sex hat, spricht man selten.
People rarely talk about how often they have sex.
Der, die or das?
Sex is masculine: der Sex. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Sex?
Sex is number 4,998 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 63,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 79% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,994Debattendebates
- 4,995fortsetzento continue, to resume
- 4,996bekamengot, received (past plural)
- 4,997Persönlichkeitenpersonalities, figures
- 4,998der Sexsex
- 4,999deutlicherclearer, more clearly
- 5,000die Absagerefusal, cancellation
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,998
- The most common German nouns#2,201
- German B1 vocabulary#1,609
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#543
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.