German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Stress
Meaning in English: stress
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Vor Weihnachten habe ich immer viel Stress.
I'm always really stressed before Christmas.
Der, die or das?
Stress is masculine: der Stress. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Stress?
Stress is number 2,915 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 30 times per million words — about once every 33,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,911die Sammlungcollection
- 2,912der Tourismustourism
- 2,913Diskussionendiscussions, debates
- 2,914breitwide, broad
- 2,915der Stressstress
- 2,916komplettecomplete, entire
- 2,917JapanJapan
- 2,918umgehendimmediately, promptly
- 2,919die Zielgruppetarget group, audience
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,915
- The most common German nouns#1,238
- German A2 vocabulary#639
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#324
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.