German noun, neuter · CEFR A1
das Zimmer
Meaning in English: room
Example
Mein Zimmer ist klein, aber gemütlich.
My room is small but cosy.
Der, die or das?
Zimmer is neuter: das Zimmer. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Zimmer?
Zimmer is number 2,700 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 33 times per million words — about once every 30,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,700
- The most common German nouns#1,132
- German A1 vocabulary#612
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#136
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