das Ziel
Meaning in English: goal, aim; destination
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Mein Ziel ist es, besser Deutsch zu sprechen.
My goal is to speak better German.
Der, die or das?
Ziel is neuter: das Ziel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Ziel in the top 5,000
These forms of Ziel are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Welche Ziele hast du für dieses Jahr?
What goals do you have for this year?
Mit klaren Zielen lernt man besser.
You learn better with clear goals.
How common is Ziel?
Ziel is number 231 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 369 times per million words — about once every 2,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 52% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Words built on Ziel:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 227der Wegway, path, route
- 228der Bereicharea, field, sector
- 229vergangenenpast, last
- 230seienare, be (reported speech)
- 231das Zielgoal, aim; destination
- 232letztenlast
- 233das Landcountry; land; countryside
- 234gabgave; there was/were
- 235arbeitento work
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#231
- The 1,000 most common German words#231
- The 5,000 most common German words#231
- The most common German nouns#29
- German A2 vocabulary#48
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#7
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.