das Spiel
Meaning in English: game, match; play
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Das Spiel endete unentschieden.
The match ended in a draw.
Der, die or das?
Spiel is neuter: das Spiel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Spiel in the top 5,000
These forms of Spiel are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Welche Spiele spielt ihr am liebsten?
Which games do you like playing best?
Am Ende des Spiels haben alle gejubelt.
At the end of the game everyone cheered.
How common is Spiel?
Spiel is number 359 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 241 times per million words — about once every 4,100 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 55% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#359
- The 1,000 most common German words#359
- The 5,000 most common German words#359
- The most common German nouns#66
- German A1 vocabulary#206
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#12
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.