German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Zeichen
Meaning in English: sign, signal, character
Example
Gib mir ein Zeichen, wenn du fertig bist.
Give me a sign when you're ready.
Der, die or das?
Zeichen is neuter: das Zeichen. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Zeichen?
Zeichen is number 1,411 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 65 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,407fehltis missing, lacks
- 1,408der Herstellermanufacturer
- 1,409Beamtencivil servants, officers
- 1,410berücksichtigttaken into account
- 1,411das Zeichensign, signal, character
- 1,412die Dauerduration, length
- 1,413fehlento be missing, to be absent
- 1,414vermitteltarranged, conveyed
- 1,415modernemodern
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,411
- The most common German nouns#526
- German B1 vocabulary#428
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#66
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.