German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Weltkrieg
Meaning in English: world war
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Mein Opa hat den Zweiten Weltkrieg erlebt.
My grandpa lived through the Second World War.
Der, die or das?
Weltkrieg is masculine: der Weltkrieg. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Weltkrieg?
Weltkrieg is number 3,706 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 44,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,702die Schauspielerinactress
- 3,703genanntementioned, named
- 3,704beschränktlimited, restricted
- 3,705die Leiterin(female) head, manager, leader
- 3,706der Weltkriegworld war
- 3,707Instrumenteinstruments
- 3,708Markenbrands; stamps
- 3,709der Naturschutznature conservation
- 3,710anzubietento offer (zu-infinitive)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,706
- The most common German nouns#1,589
- German B1 vocabulary#1,189
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#407
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.