German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Wunsch
Meaning in English: wish, request
Example
Hast du einen Wunsch für deinen Geburtstag?
Is there anything you'd like for your birthday?
Der, die or das?
Wunsch is masculine: der Wunsch. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Wunsch?
Wunsch is number 1,227 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 75 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% 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
- 1,223genanntenmentioned, named
- 1,224getroffenmet, hit, made (a decision)
- 1,225das Glückluck, happiness
- 1,226der Absatzparagraph, heel, sales
- 1,227der Wunschwish, request
- 1,228der Dienstservice, duty, shift
- 1,229beginnento begin, to start
- 1,230der Ballball
- 1,231persönlichpersonal(ly), in person
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,227
- The most common German nouns#444
- German A2 vocabulary#292
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#126
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.