der Weg
Meaning in English: way, path, route
Add der Weg and its 1 form to your reviews. Progress stays in this browser.
Test my vocabularyExample
Können Sie mir den Weg zum Bahnhof zeigen?
Can you show me the way to the station?
Der, die or das?
Weg is masculine: der Weg. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Weg in the top 5,000
These forms of Weg are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Im Park gibt es viele schöne Wege.
There are lots of nice paths in the park.
How common is Weg?
Weg is number 227 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 375 times per million words — about once every 2,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 51% 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
- 223das Beispielexample
- 224großenbig, large, great
- 225außerdembesides, moreover
- 226eigenenown
- 227der Wegway, path, route
- 228der Bereicharea, field, sector
- 229vergangenenpast, last
- 230seienare, be (reported speech)
- 231das Zielgoal, aim; destination
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#227
- The 1,000 most common German words#227
- The 5,000 most common German words#227
- The most common German nouns#27
- German A2 vocabulary#47
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#6
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.