German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der West
Meaning in English: west
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Früher war die Stadt in Ost und West geteilt.
The city used to be divided into East and West.
Der, die or das?
West is masculine: der West. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is West?
West is number 3,837 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 46,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,833AfrikaAfrica
- 3,834der Bildschirmscreen, monitor
- 3,835die Quellesource, spring
- 3,836teilzunehmento take part (zu-infinitive)
- 3,837der Westwest
- 3,838deckento cover, to set (the table)
- 3,839mietento rent
- 3,840der Ruhestandretirement
- 3,841der Rufreputation, call
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,837
- The most common German nouns#1,654
- German A2 vocabulary#805
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#422
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.