German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Zoll
Meaning in English: customs, duty; inch
Example
Am Flughafen mussten wir durch den Zoll.
At the airport we had to go through customs.
Der, die or das?
Zoll is masculine: der Zoll. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Zoll?
Zoll is number 4,500 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 56,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,496die Lastload, burden
- 4,497Gremiencommittees, bodies
- 4,498angegebenenstated, specified
- 4,499wähltchooses; votes; dials
- 4,500der Zollcustoms, duty; inch
- 4,501die Umstellungchangeover, switch, adjustment
- 4,502der Konsumconsumption
- 4,503stärktstrengthens
- 4,504Phasenphases, stages
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- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#491
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