German noun, masculine · CEFR B1

der Standard

Meaning in English: standard

Rank 3,363 of 5,000noun · derLevel B12 forms in the list

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Example

Das Hotel hat einen hohen Standard.

The hotel has a high standard.

Der, die or das?

Standard is masculine: der Standard. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Standard in the top 5,000

These forms of Standard are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Standards#2,689
standardsB2

Das Hotel hat sehr hohe Standards.
The hotel has very high standards.

How common is Standard?

Standard is number 3,363 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 40,000 words. Its most frequent form is Standards (#2,689).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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

  1. 3,359Dateienfiles
  2. 3,360Starsstars, celebrities
  3. 3,361buchento book
  4. 3,362das Datumdate
  5. 3,363der Standardstandard
  6. 3,364wahrgenommenperceived, noticed
  7. 3,365die Wahrnehmungperception
  8. 3,366inhaltlichin terms of content
  9. 3,367dokumentiertdocumented

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