German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Virus
Meaning in English: virus
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Auf meinem Laptop ist wohl ein Virus.
There seems to be a virus on my laptop.
Der, die or das?
Virus is neuter: das Virus. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Virus?
Virus is number 3,006 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 29 times per million words — about once every 35,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Virus:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,002derweilmeanwhile
- 3,003ausgebautexpanded, extended
- 3,004eingebundeninvolved, integrated
- 3,005die Literaturliterature
- 3,006das Virusvirus
- 3,007begegnento meet, to encounter
- 3,008absolviertcompleted
- 3,009innereninner, internal
- 3,010spätenlate (inflected)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,006
- The most common German nouns#1,274
- German B1 vocabulary#971
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#149
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.