German noun, masculine · CEFR A1
der Zahn
Meaning in English: tooth
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Body parts in German list.
Example
Seit gestern tut mir ein Zahn weh.
One of my teeth has been hurting since yesterday.
Der, die or das?
Zahn is masculine: der Zahn. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Zahn?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Zahn appears 3.6 times per million words — about once every 280,000 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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