German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Vorbild
Meaning in English: role model, example
Example
Meine Oma ist mein großes Vorbild.
My grandma is my great role model.
Der, die or das?
Vorbild is neuter: das Vorbild. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Vorbild?
Vorbild is number 3,247 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 26 times per million words — about once every 38,000 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.
Related words in the list
Vorbild is built from das Bild (picture, image).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,243Lehrerinnen(female) teachers
- 3,244stattfindettakes place
- 3,245Vorsitzendenchair(person), leader
- 3,246begrüßtgreeted, welcomed
- 3,247das Vorbildrole model, example
- 3,248steigendenrising
- 3,249der Gründerfounder
- 3,250mitmachento join in, to take part
- 3,251Autorenauthors
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,247
- The most common German nouns#1,375
- German B1 vocabulary#1,057
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#168
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