German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Stern
Meaning in English: star
Example
Heute Nacht sieht man jeden Stern.
Tonight you can see every star.
Der, die or das?
Stern is masculine: der Stern. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Stern?
Stern is number 4,538 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 56,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,534der Finanzministerfinance minister
- 4,535Maskenmasks
- 4,536vereintunited, combined
- 4,537Abständenintervals, distances
- 4,538der Sternstar
- 4,539werbento advertise, to recruit
- 4,540nahennear, nearby
- 4,541zogenpulled; moved
- 4,542die Werkstattworkshop, garage
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,538
- The most common German nouns#1,975
- German A2 vocabulary#907
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#496
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.