German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Stein
Meaning in English: stone, rock
Example
Pass auf, da liegt ein großer Stein!
Watch out, there's a big stone there!
Der, die or das?
Stein is masculine: der Stein. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Stein?
Stein is number 4,105 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 50,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Words built on Stein:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,101der Ausschusscommittee
- 4,102bleibestay (I)
- 4,103prüftchecks, examines, tests
- 4,104Interviewsinterviews
- 4,105der Steinstone, rock
- 4,106die Operationoperation, surgery
- 4,107verweistrefers (to), points to
- 4,108der Schneidertailor
- 4,109massivenmassive, solid, severe
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,105
- The most common German nouns#1,777
- German A2 vocabulary#849
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#456
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