German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Unfall
Meaning in English: accident
Example
Auf der Autobahn gab es einen Unfall.
There was an accident on the motorway.
Der, die or das?
Unfall is masculine: der Unfall. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Unfall?
Unfall is number 939 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 95 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Words built on Unfall:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 935ebenjust; simply; flat
- 936Auswirkungeneffects, impact
- 937Sinnesense (im Sinne); senses
- 938Voraussetzungenrequirements, prerequisites
- 939der Unfallaccident
- 940sorgtensures, provides; takes care
- 941die Pandemiepandemic
- 942verwendenuse
- 943das Mädchengirl
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#939
- The 5,000 most common German words#939
- The most common German nouns#321
- German A2 vocabulary#232
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#87
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