German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Strom
Meaning in English: electricity, current, stream
Example
Gestern Abend hatten wir zwei Stunden keinen Strom.
Last night we had no electricity for two hours.
Der, die or das?
Strom is masculine: der Strom. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Strom?
Strom is number 1,217 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 75 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% 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
- 1,213eröffnetopened
- 1,214trittsteps, kicks, appears
- 1,215der Kampffight, struggle
- 1,216zählento count
- 1,217der Stromelectricity, current, stream
- 1,218der Lehrerteacher
- 1,219starkenstrong
- 1,220der Schwerpunktfocus, main emphasis
- 1,221der Fehlermistake, error
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,217
- The most common German nouns#437
- German A2 vocabulary#288
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#120
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.