der Sommer
Meaning in English: summer
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Im Sommer fahren wir ans Meer.
In summer we go to the seaside.
Der, die or das?
Sommer is masculine: der Sommer. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -er are der in 126 of 160 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Sommer?
Sommer is number 546 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 163 times per million words — about once every 6,100 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 59% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Words built on Sommer:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 542die Politikpolitics, policy
- 543Mitgliedermembers
- 544Seitenpages, sides
- 545die Lagesituation; location
- 546der Sommersummer
- 547die Zahlnumber
- 548die Gruppegroup
- 549das Alterage
- 550erneutagain, once more
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#546
- The 5,000 most common German words#546
- The most common German nouns#137
- German A1 vocabulary#275
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#38
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.