das Tier
Meaning in English: animal
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Welches Tier magst du am liebsten?
Which animal do you like best?
Der, die or das?
Tier is neuter: das Tier. 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.
Forms of Tier in the top 5,000
These forms of Tier are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Auf dem Bauernhof gibt es viele Tiere.
There are lots of animals on the farm.
Auf dem Bauernhof spielen die Kinder mit den Tieren.
On the farm the children play with the animals.
How common is Tier?
Tier is number 2,398 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 38 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words. Its most frequent form is Tiere (#992).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,394der Dialogdialogue
- 2,395Webseitenweb pages, websites
- 2,396die Zulassungapproval, admission; registration
- 2,397verhindertprevented; unable to come
- 2,398das Tieranimal
- 2,399fühltfeels
- 2,400Studentenstudents
- 2,401der Verlustloss
- 2,402verkaufento sell
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,398
- The most common German nouns#996
- German A1 vocabulary#580
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#127
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.