Vocabulary · Nouns
German Nouns List, A1 to C2
German nouns with gender, article, plural and genitive. All 9,109 in the CEFR list, commonest first, each tagged with the level it belongs to.
9,109
entries
269
at A1
407
at A2
858
at B1
- derEiner unit, unitsʼ place, onesʼ place (the numbers 0 to 9, possibly as part of a larger number…
- dasMal time (as in the first time; many times); occasion, case, occurrence
- dasProzent percent
- derEuro euro (currency); Euro (UEFA European Football Championship)
- dasWeiß white, whiteness; powder, face powder
- dasJahr year (solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one orbit of the Sun); year…
- derDank thanks, gratitude, appreciation; thanks to, because of, courtesy of
- dieUhr hours, o'clock (indicates the time within a twelve- or twenty-four-hour period); clock,…
- derMann man, male human being; husband
- dieMillion million (10⁶)
- dieZeit time (as a concept); time of day (clipping of Uhrzeit)
- dasEnde end, finish; conclusion
- derSonntag Sunday (the first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of…
- dieFrau woman (adult female human); wife (married woman, especially in relation to her spouse)
- Leute people (several individual persons, a group of people in general, esp. of one kind or…
- derTag day (a 24-hour period); day (the period from midnight to the following midnight)
- dieLiebe love (tender feeling of affection); a feeling of love for someone or something particular
- dasGeld money
- derFlüchtling refugee; fugitive, escapee
- dieNacht night; darkness
- dasLand country (territory of a nation); state, province (political division of a federation…
- dasAch oh; oh, alas (expressing surprise, sorrow, or understanding)
- dieMilliarde billion (10⁹)
- dasSpiel a game (instance or way of playing); gameplay, the experience or act of playing
- derArtikel article; article, item, ware
- dieOrdnung arrangement, regulation; classification, order, array
- dasHaus house; home (in various phrases)
- dieRegierung government/administration; the act of governing
- dasMädchen girl; maiden
- derAbend evening; the time from dusk until midnight; The west
- dasFoto photograph (picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface);…
- derPlatz square, plaza, piazza; circus
- dieStadt city (a large settlement); town (a settlement larger than a village)
- dieWoche week (period of seven days counting from Monday to Sunday, or from Sunday to Saturday);…
- derFreund friend; boyfriend
- dieFreundin female equivalent of Freund
- dieAngst fear; fright; anxiety
- derFreitag Friday
- dasThema topic, subject, issue; theme
- dasKind kid; child (young person); child; offspring (person with regard to his or her parents;…
- dieFrage question (interrogative sentence or phrase); question, issue, matter (subject or topic…
- derTeil part, piece (of a whole, often in relation to living things or an abstract concept);…
- dieMusik music; music as a school subject, musical instruction
- dieArbeit toil, regularly performed work, regularly pursued economic activity, labor, job,…
- dieMinute minute (unit of time; unit of angle)
- derDollar dollar
- derMontag Monday
- dieFamilie family
- dasProblem problem
- dieAntwort answer
- dieAngabe verbal noun of angeben; indication, specification, declaration (providing of information)
- derMittwoch Wednesday
- dieSache matter, affair, case, question, issue; thing, object
- derDienstag Tuesday
- derSchweizer Swiss person, Swiss (male); Swiss Guard
- derDonnerstag Thursday
- derLieber dear
- dieSeite side (a bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape); face, side, surface of any…
- derSamstag Saturday
- derDad dad; Dad
Common questions
How many German nouns should I know?
This list holds 9,109 nouns graded A1 to C2. 676 of them fall in A1–A2, which is the set worth knowing cold before anything else.
Are the noun forms included?
Yes. Every noun entry gives the article, the nominative plural and the genitive singular.
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