German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Urlaub
Meaning in English: holiday, vacation
Example
Wohin fahrt ihr in den Urlaub?
Where are you going on holiday?
Der, die or das?
Urlaub is masculine: der Urlaub. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Urlaub?
Urlaub is number 1,627 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 57 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,623der Bestandteilcomponent, part
- 1,624die Analyseanalysis
- 1,625die Mitteilungnotice, message, announcement
- 1,626aufsonto the, to the (auf das)
- 1,627der Urlaubholiday, vacation
- 1,628begleitento accompany
- 1,629unklarunclear
- 1,630der Ablaufprocedure, course (of events)
- 1,631die Finanzierungfinancing, funding
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,627
- The most common German nouns#632
- German A1 vocabulary#474
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#173
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