German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Verbot
Meaning in English: ban, prohibition
Example
Im Park gilt ein Verbot für Hunde.
Dogs are banned in the park.
Der, die or das?
Verbot is neuter: das Verbot. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Verbot?
Verbot is number 3,197 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 27 times per million words — about once every 37,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,193Standortelocations, sites
- 3,194vollenfull (inflected)
- 3,195die Laufzeitterm, duration; running time
- 3,196Besuchernvisitors (dative plural)
- 3,197das Verbotban, prohibition
- 3,198der Durchschnittaverage
- 3,199aufgefordertasked, called upon
- 3,200der Gewinnerwinner
- 3,201aufeinanderon/to each other
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,197
- The most common German nouns#1,346
- German B1 vocabulary#1,039
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#163
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