German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Tatort
Meaning in English: crime scene
Example
Die Polizei hat den Tatort abgesperrt.
The police cordoned off the crime scene.
Der, die or das?
Tatort is masculine: der Tatort. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Tatort?
Tatort is number 3,901 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 47,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,897das Highlighthighlight
- 3,898Konflikteconflicts
- 3,899sorgtencaused, provided, took care
- 3,900virtuellevirtual
- 3,901der Tatortcrime scene
- 3,902falschenwrong, false
- 3,903letzteslast (neuter)
- 3,904erneuerbarenrenewable
- 3,905die Prognoseforecast, prognosis
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,901
- The most common German nouns#1,688
- German B2 vocabulary#872
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#431
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