German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Tal
Meaning in English: valley
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Nature in German list.
Example
Unten im Tal liegt ein kleines Dorf.
Down in the valley there's a little village.
Der, die or das?
Tal is neuter: das Tal. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Tal?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Tal appears 10 times per million words — about once every 99,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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