German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Stiefel
Meaning in English: boot
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Clothes in German list.
Example
Im Schnee trage ich hohe Stiefel.
I wear tall boots in the snow.
Der, die or das?
Stiefel is masculine: der Stiefel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Stiefel?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Stiefel appears 1.8 times per million words — about once every 570,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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