German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Traum
Meaning in English: dream
Example
Ein Haus am Meer ist mein großer Traum.
A house by the sea is my big dream.
Der, die or das?
Traum is masculine: der Traum. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -um are usually das (17 of 24 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Traum?
Traum is number 2,977 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 29 times per million words — about once every 34,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,973die Kleidungclothes, clothing
- 2,974Beamtecivil servant(s), officer(s)
- 2,975darstellento represent, to depict
- 2,976schautlooks, watches
- 2,977der Traumdream
- 2,978erkanntrecognised, realised
- 2,979relevantenrelevant
- 2,980eventuellpossibly, perhaps
- 2,981die Rentepension, retirement
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,977
- The most common German nouns#1,263
- German A2 vocabulary#652
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#330
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