German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Zeh
Meaning in English: toe
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
Ich habe mir den Zeh am Tisch gestoßen.
I stubbed my toe on the table.
Der, die or das?
Zeh is masculine: der Zeh. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Zeh?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Zeh appears 1.3 times per million words — about once every 770,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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