das Silber
Meaning in English: silver
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Die Staffel hat Silber gewonnen.
The relay team won silver.
Der, die or das?
Silber is neuter: das Silber. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Silber?
Silber is number 4,780 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 60,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,776der Passpassport; pass (sport, mountain)
- 4,777das Ensembleensemble, company (theatre)
- 4,778der Stellenwertstatus, importance
- 4,779tanzento dance
- 4,780das Silbersilver
- 4,781reichlichplenty, ample; rather
- 4,782der Strandbeach
- 4,783der Ortsteildistrict, part of a town
- 4,784der Chorchoir
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,780
- The most common German nouns#2,096
- German B1 vocabulary#1,554
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#250
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.