German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Wal
Meaning in English: whale
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
Example
Der Wal ist das größte Tier im Meer.
The whale is the biggest animal in the sea.
Der, die or das?
Wal is masculine: der Wal. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Wal?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Wal appears 0.8 times per million words — about once every 1,300,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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