der Winter
Meaning in English: winter
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Im Winter fahren wir gern Ski.
In winter we like to go skiing.
Der, die or das?
Winter is masculine: der Winter. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -er are der in 126 of 160 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Winter?
Winter is number 1,235 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 74 times per million words — about once every 14,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Words built on Winter:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,231persönlichpersonal(ly), in person
- 1,232ausreichendsufficient, enough
- 1,233die Bewegungmovement, exercise
- 1,234die Reisetrip, journey
- 1,235der Winterwinter
- 1,236nötignecessary
- 1,237rechnento calculate, to expect
- 1,238individuelleindividual, personal
- 1,239anhandby means of, based on
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,235
- The most common German nouns#449
- German A1 vocabulary#399
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#129
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.