Vocabulary · Nouns
German Nouns List — A1 to C2 — Words 8,521–8,580
Continuing the list — words 8,521 to 8,580 of 9,109, still commonest first. Back to the start of the list.
9,109
entries
430
at A1
402
at A2
734
at B1
Each row links to the word's full entry — meanings, forms, examples and audio — on its own level page.
- dieMimik facial expressions
- Nebenkosten side costs, additional costs
- dieHochachtung great respect
- dasSonderangebot bargain
- dasPrachtstück a gem, showpiece (something worth being shown)
- derPreisanstieg inflation (price increase)
- derLebensretter lifesaver, lifeguard
- derRadikaler a radical (person, male)
- dieRotation rotation
- dieRücksprache consultation
- derRückstau backlog, tailback
- dieSchwächung weakening, attenuation; impairment, enfeeblement
- derFrauenheld womanizer
- derSüdafrikaner a South African (male or of unspecified gender)
- dieTherme thermal spring, thermae; spa, day spa (complex with saunas, hot baths, etc.)
- dieTschechin Czech (woman from the Czech Republic)
- dieUnterwerfung subjugation; submission
- dieAugenbinde blindfold
- derVerfechter advocate, champion; stickler
- derOne-Night-Stand one-night stand
- derVolksentscheid referendum
- dieBong bong (kind of marihuana pipe)
- derNacho nacho, tortilla chip
- dasZeltlager tent camp
- derHering herring; tent peg
- dasSchlachthaus slaughterhouse
- dieGleichgültigkeit indifference
- dieFiedel violin, fiddle; vielle (medieval kind of violin)
- derNeandertaler Neanderthal (member of the now extinct species Homo neanderthalensis); Neanderthal…
- derSpaßvogel joker, jester
- derBluthochdruck hypertension, high blood pressure
- dieBritin Briton; British woman
- derBundesminister federal minister
- dasBürgerrecht citizenship; civil rights
- derCluster cluster; group of galaxies or stars
- dasEquipment equipment, equipage
- dasErfolgsrezept recipe for success, secret sauce
- dieFinanzierungsrunde funding round, financing round (a cycle in which a company raises money from investors…
- dasGaspedal throttle; accelerator; accelerator pedal
- derHungerstreik hunger strike
- derSoziopath sociopath
- derFummel drag (clothing)
- dieJugendarbeit youth employment; juvenile labour
- derWaschraum a washroom or bathroom that is not in a private dwelling, e.g. in a barracks or low-cost…
- dieEbbe ebb, low tide
- dieSchatulle casket (little box e.g. for jewelry)
- dieMagnum magnum
- dasMenschenrecht human right
- dieMille synonym of tausend (“thousand”), almost exclusively used of money: grand; synonym of…
- dieMillionenstadt a city with at least one million inhabitants
- derSäugling baby, infant, newborn, suckling
- derPfeifer piper
- dieAbsolution absolution
- derTampon tampon
- derTyphus typhoid fever, abdominal typhus (disease)
- derRap rap, rap music (music style); rap (song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of…
- dieRivalität rivalry (competition)
- dieDoktorarbeit doctoral dissertation (thesis to obtain the academic degree of doctor)
- derSamstagmittag Saturday noon
- dasBistro bistro
Common questions
How many German nouns should I know?
This list holds 9,109 nouns graded A1 to C2. 832 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.
Grammatical data from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. See sources.