die Straßenbahn
Meaning in English: tram
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Travel and transport in German list.
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Wir fahren mit der Straßenbahn in die Stadt.
We're taking the tram into town.
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Straßenbahn is feminine: die Straßenbahn. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Straßenbahn?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Straßenbahn appears 7.9 times per million words — about once every 130,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Straßenbahn is built from die Straße (street, road) + die Bahn (railway, train, track).
Travel and transport: more words
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- die Bahnrailway, train, track
- die U-Bahnunderground, subway
- das Fahrradbicycle
- das Flugzeugaeroplane, aircraft
- das Schiffship
- das Taxitaxi
- der Bahnhof(railway) station
- der Flughafenairport
- die Haltestelle(bus/tram) stop
- die Fahrkarteticket (for travel)
- das Ticketticket
- der Koffersuitcase
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.