German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Wind
Meaning in English: wind
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Heute weht ein kalter Wind.
A cold wind is blowing today.
Der, die or das?
Wind is masculine: der Wind. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Wind?
Wind is number 2,707 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 33 times per million words — about once every 30,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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
- 2,703die Eckecorner
- 2,704Spurentraces, tracks
- 2,705zusammengestelltput together, compiled
- 2,706neuestenlatest, newest
- 2,707der Windwind
- 2,708der Betragamount, sum
- 2,709bedenkenconsider, bear in mind
- 2,710Hausesof the house (genitive)
- 2,711österreichischenAustrian
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,707
- The most common German nouns#1,135
- German A2 vocabulary#605
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#300
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.