der Verein
Meaning in English: club, association
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Mein Sohn spielt Fußball in einem Verein.
My son plays football for a club.
Der, die or das?
Verein is masculine: der Verein. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Verein in the top 5,000
These forms of Verein are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In unserem Dorf gibt es viele Vereine.
There are lots of clubs in our village.
Er ist seit zehn Jahren Mitglied des Vereins.
He has been a member of the club for ten years.
How common is Verein?
Verein is number 606 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 146 times per million words — about once every 6,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 60% 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
- 602hohehigh
- 603siebenseven
- 604inzwischenmeanwhile, by now
- 605die Wahlchoice; election
- 606der Vereinclub, association
- 607berichtetreported; reports
- 608die Veranstaltungevent
- 609digitalendigital
- 610durchgeführtcarried out, conducted
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#606
- The 5,000 most common German words#606
- The most common German nouns#159
- German B1 vocabulary#132
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#42
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.