German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Volk
Meaning in English: people, nation
Example
Das ganze Volk feierte den Sieg auf der Straße.
The whole nation celebrated the victory in the streets.
Der, die or das?
Volk is neuter: das Volk. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Volk?
Volk is number 4,177 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 51,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,173leidsorry (in "es tut mir leid")
- 4,174ambulantenoutpatient
- 4,175warntewarned
- 4,176gewähltenelected, chosen
- 4,177das Volkpeople, nation
- 4,178jüngereyounger
- 4,179vergleichento compare
- 4,180jüngstrecently
- 4,181vielfachmany times, often
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,177
- The most common German nouns#1,808
- German B1 vocabulary#1,358
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#219
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