German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Wagen
Meaning in English: car, carriage
Example
Unser Wagen steht in der Werkstatt.
Our car is at the garage.
Der, die or das?
Wagen is masculine: der Wagen. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Wagen?
Wagen is number 1,721 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 53 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,717der Zustandcondition, state
- 1,718historischenhistoric(al)
- 1,719kleinersmaller; small
- 1,720die Einwilligungconsent
- 1,721der Wagencar, carriage
- 1,722gehaltenheld, kept, stopped
- 1,723das Feldfield
- 1,724eingerichtetset up, furnished
- 1,725gesprochenspoken, talked
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,721
- The most common German nouns#681
- German A2 vocabulary#404
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#181
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