German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Verkehr
Meaning in English: traffic
Example
Um fünf Uhr ist in der Stadt viel Verkehr.
At five o'clock there's a lot of traffic in town.
Der, die or das?
Verkehr is masculine: der Verkehr. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Verkehr?
Verkehr is number 1,158 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 78 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% 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 Verkehr:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,154der Bezugreference, relation, cover
- 1,155das Fahrzeugvehicle
- 1,156stärkerstronger, more
- 1,157Aktivitätenactivities
- 1,158der Verkehrtraffic
- 1,159geschlossenclosed, shut
- 1,160richtetdirects, aims, arranges
- 1,161entferntaway, distant; removed
- 1,162zuständigenresponsible, competent
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,158
- The most common German nouns#417
- German A2 vocabulary#277
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#115
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