German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Westen
Meaning in English: west
Example
Die Sonne geht im Westen unter.
The sun sets in the west.
Der, die or das?
Westen is masculine: der Westen. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Westen?
Westen is number 1,743 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 52 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,739Strukturenstructures
- 1,740die Ernährungdiet, nutrition
- 1,741Pflanzenplants
- 1,742der Hinweisnote, hint, tip
- 1,743der Westenwest
- 1,744tutdoes; hurts (tut weh)
- 1,745allgemeinegeneral
- 1,746die Streckeroute, distance, line
- 1,747relativrelatively, fairly
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,743
- The most common German nouns#693
- German A2 vocabulary#412
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#185
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.