das Signal
Meaning in English: signal
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Im Keller habe ich kein Signal.
I have no signal in the basement.
Der, die or das?
Signal is neuter: das Signal. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -al are das in 9 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Signal?
Signal is number 3,604 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,600globaleglobal
- 3,601der Stilstyle
- 3,602englischenEnglish
- 3,603der Direktordirector, head teacher
- 3,604das Signalsignal
- 3,605internationalerinternational
- 3,606die Richtlinieguideline, directive
- 3,607gelassencalm, relaxed, composed
- 3,608Jungsboys, guys (colloquial)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,604
- The most common German nouns#1,540
- German B1 vocabulary#1,161
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#189
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.