German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Sturm
Meaning in English: storm; attack, forwards (sport)
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Der Sturm hat viele Bäume umgeworfen.
The storm knocked down lots of trees.
Der, die or das?
Sturm is masculine: der Sturm. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Sturm?
Sturm is number 3,513 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 41,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,509der Experteexpert
- 3,510erfassento record, to register; to grasp
- 3,511der Kadersquad (sport)
- 3,512lokallocal(ly)
- 3,513der Sturmstorm; attack, forwards (sport)
- 3,514erheblichenconsiderable, substantial
- 3,515UngarnHungary
- 3,516konsequentconsistent(ly), rigorous(ly)
- 3,517rechtlichlegal(ly)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,513
- The most common German nouns#1,495
- German A2 vocabulary#753
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#382
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.