German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Sonntag
Meaning in English: Sunday
Example
Am Sonntag schlafe ich lange.
On Sunday I sleep in.
Der, die or das?
Sonntag is masculine: der Sonntag. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Sonntag?
Sonntag is number 371 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 235 times per million words — about once every 4,300 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 56% 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 Sonntag:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 367die Universitätuniversity
- 368binam
- 369dürfenmay, to be allowed to
- 370innerhalbwithin, inside
- 371der SonntagSunday
- 372der OktoberOctober
- 373die Hilfehelp
- 374spielento play
- 375keinenno, not any (acc. masc., dat. pl.)
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- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#17
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.