German noun, neuter · CEFR B2

das Tool

Meaning in English: tool (software)

Rank 4,705 of 5,000noun · dasLevel B22 forms in the list

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Example

Mit diesem Tool kann man Fotos bearbeiten.

You can edit photos with this tool.

Der, die or das?

Tool is neuter: das Tool. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Tool in the top 5,000

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

Tools#3,467
tools (software)B1

Welche Tools benutzt ihr für die Planung?
Which tools do you use for planning?

How common is Tool?

Tool is number 4,705 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 59,000 words. Its most frequent form is Tools (#3,467).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 4,701wirstwill; become (du form)
  2. 4,702buntecolourful, multicoloured
  3. 4,703drückento press, to push
  4. 4,704Liedersongs
  5. 4,705das Tooltool (software)
  6. 4,706das Stadtgebieturban area, city limits
  7. 4,707vorzubereitento prepare (zu-infinitive)
  8. 4,708maximalemaximum
  9. 4,709entfälltis cancelled, does not apply

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