der Text
Meaning in English: text
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Test my vocabularyExample
Lies den Text und beantworte die Fragen.
Read the text and answer the questions.
Der, die or das?
Text is masculine: der Text. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Text in the top 5,000
These forms of Text are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Er schreibt die Texte für die Band.
He writes the lyrics for the band.
In den Texten sind noch einige Fehler.
There are still some mistakes in the texts.
How common is Text?
Text is number 1,529 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 60 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,525schriebwrote
- 1,526der Vorteiladvantage
- 1,527der Linklink
- 1,528Organisationenorganisations
- 1,529der Texttext
- 1,530öffnento open
- 1,531reisento travel
- 1,532Methodenmethods
- 1,533Sachenthings, stuff
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,529
- The most common German nouns#592
- German A1 vocabulary#447
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#164
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.