der Stoff
Meaning in English: fabric, material; substance
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Der Stoff fühlt sich sehr weich an.
The fabric feels very soft.
Der, die or das?
Stoff is masculine: der Stoff. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Stoff in the top 5,000
These forms of Stoff are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Das Mittel enthält keine schädlichen Stoffe.
The product contains no harmful substances.
How common is Stoff?
Stoff is number 4,595 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 57,000 words. Its most frequent form is Stoffe (#4,465).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Stoff:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,591verwendetenused
- 4,592Fachkräftenskilled workers
- 4,593die Vergabeallocation, awarding
- 4,594Bemühungenefforts
- 4,595der Stofffabric, material; substance
- 4,596das Ehrenamtvoluntary work, honorary post
- 4,597bundesweitenationwide
- 4,598der Bauerfarmer
- 4,599bergento recover, to rescue; to hold (risks)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,595
- The most common German nouns#2,006
- German B1 vocabulary#1,495
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#502
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