German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Start
Meaning in English: start; take-off
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Beim Start war es noch ziemlich windig.
At the start it was still quite windy.
Der, die or das?
Start is masculine: der Start. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Start?
Start is number 753 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 119 times per million words — about once every 8,400 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% 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
- 749offenopen
- 750Ideenideas
- 751der Zeitpunktpoint in time, moment
- 752bevorbefore (conjunction)
- 753der Startstart; take-off
- 754die Sprachelanguage
- 755der Unterrichtlessons, class, teaching
- 756Kommunenmunicipalities, local authorities
- 757veröffentlichtpublished
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#753
- The 5,000 most common German words#753
- The most common German nouns#235
- German B1 vocabulary#185
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#65
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.