German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Telefon
Meaning in English: telephone, phone
Example
Kannst du bitte ans Telefon gehen?
Can you answer the phone, please?
Der, die or das?
Telefon is neuter: das Telefon. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Telefon?
Telefon is number 2,046 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 45 times per million words — about once every 22,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Words built on Telefon:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,042unbekannteunknown (inflected)
- 2,043speichernto save, to store
- 2,044eingestellthired; set, adjusted; stopped
- 2,045der Newsletternewsletter
- 2,046das Telefontelephone, phone
- 2,047gleichesame (inflected)
- 2,048abhängigdependent, depending
- 2,049Problemenproblems (dative plural)
- 2,050die Gründungfounding, establishment
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,046
- The most common German nouns#828
- German A1 vocabulary#534
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#106
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