German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Welt
Meaning in English: world
Example
Sie möchte einmal um die ganze Welt reisen.
She'd like to travel around the whole world one day.
Der, die or das?
Welt is feminine: die Welt. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Welt?
Welt is number 248 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 349 times per million words — about once every 2,900 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 52% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#7
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