der Tag
Meaning in English: day
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Ich wünsche dir einen schönen Tag!
Have a nice day!
Der, die or das?
Tag is masculine: der Tag. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Tag in the top 5,000
These forms of Tag are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Wir bleiben drei Tage in Rom.
We're staying three days in Rome.
Vor drei Tagen habe ich ihn getroffen.
I met him three days ago.
Eines Tages will ich nach Japan reisen.
One day I want to travel to Japan.
How common is Tag?
Tag is number 222 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 381 times per million words — about once every 2,600 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 51% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#222
- The 1,000 most common German words#222
- The 5,000 most common German words#222
- The most common German nouns#25
- German A1 vocabulary#149
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#5
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.