das Theater
Meaning in English: theatre
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Gehen wir am Samstag ins Theater?
Shall we go to the theatre on Saturday?
Der, die or das?
Theater is neuter: das Theater. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Theater?
Theater is number 1,856 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 49 times per million words — about once every 20,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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
- 1,852gestartetstarted, launched, taken off
- 1,853gefeiertcelebrated
- 1,854das Herzheart
- 1,855Aspekteaspects
- 1,856das Theatertheatre
- 1,857früherenformer, earlier
- 1,858beendetfinished, ended
- 1,859Ressourcenresources
- 1,860Dienstleistungenservices
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,856
- The most common German nouns#736
- German A1 vocabulary#516
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#98
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.