German noun, feminine · CEFR A1
die Wurst
Meaning in English: sausage; cold meat
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Food and drink in German list.
Example
Auf dem Markt kaufen wir Wurst und Brot.
At the market we buy sausage and bread.
Der, die or das?
Wurst is feminine: die Wurst. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Wurst?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Wurst appears 4.3 times per million words — about once every 230,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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