German noun, masculine · CEFR A2

der Teil

Meaning in English: part, piece

Rank 196 of 5,000noun · derLevel A22 forms in the list
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Example

Den ersten Teil des Buches fand ich langweilig.

I found the first part of the book boring.

Der, die or das?

Teil is masculine: der Teil. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Teil in the top 5,000

These forms of Teil are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Teile#1,371
parts, piecesA2

Zwei Teile vom Regal fehlen im Karton.
Two parts of the shelf are missing from the box.

How common is Teil?

Teil is number 196 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 436 times per million words — about once every 2,300 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 50% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Related words in the list

Words built on Teil:

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 192wowhere
  2. 193die Arbeitwork, job
  3. 194Fragenquestions
  4. 195giltis valid, applies
  5. 196der Teilpart, piece
  6. 197gebento give
  7. 198keinno, not a
  8. 199das Thematopic, subject
  9. 200bietetoffers

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