German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Wasser
Meaning in English: water
Example
Kann ich bitte ein Glas Wasser haben?
Can I have a glass of water, please?
Der, die or das?
Wasser is neuter: das Wasser. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Wasser?
Wasser is number 501 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 179 times per million words — about once every 5,600 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 58% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Words built on Wasser:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 497die Situationsituation
- 498zahlreichenumerous, many
- 499entwickeltdeveloped; develops
- 500die Regelrule
- 501das Wasserwater
- 502weitfar, wide
- 503die Personperson
- 504erreichenreach, achieve
- 505dir(to) you (dative, informal)
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#501
- The 5,000 most common German words#501
- The most common German nouns#121
- German A1 vocabulary#263
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#18
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