German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Wetter
Meaning in English: weather
Example
Wie wird das Wetter am Wochenende?
What will the weather be like at the weekend?
Der, die or das?
Wetter is neuter: das Wetter. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Wetter?
Wetter is number 1,326 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 69 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,322die Planungplanning
- 1,323mitteilteannounced, informed
- 1,324behandelttreated, dealt with
- 1,325der Sohnson
- 1,326das Wetterweather
- 1,327teilnehmento take part
- 1,328der Vertreterrepresentative
- 1,329bisherigenprevious, to date
- 1,330zuhauseat home
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,326
- The most common German nouns#486
- German A1 vocabulary#419
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#59
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