German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Wald
Meaning in English: forest, woods
Example
Am Sonntag gehen wir im Wald spazieren.
On Sunday we're going for a walk in the woods.
Der, die or das?
Wald is masculine: der Wald. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Wald?
Wald is number 1,452 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 63 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,448Fahrzeugevehicles
- 1,449der Testtest
- 1,450vermittelnto convey, to arrange, to mediate
- 1,451wiederumin turn, on the other hand
- 1,452der Waldforest, woods
- 1,453die Leitungmanagement, line, pipe
- 1,454beziehungsweiseor rather, respectively
- 1,455verfügbaravailable
- 1,456höherhigher
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,452
- The most common German nouns#548
- German A2 vocabulary#338
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#151
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.