German Nouns List: Every Noun with Its Article and Plural

This table lists all 834 German nouns in our A1, A2 and B1 curriculum. Every row carries the noun, its article (der, die or das), its plural form, its English meaning and its CEFR level. You can filter by gender or level and sort any column.

Because neither is predictable from the word itself, and both change the sentence around it. "Der Tisch" becomes "dem Tisch" in the dative; "das Kind" becomes "die Kinder" in the plural, which then takes a different article and a different adjective ending. A noun learned without its gender and plural has to be relearned twice.

There are five main endings — -e, -er, -(e)n, -s, and no ending at all — often with an umlaut added. The endings correlate loosely with gender, but there is no rule that covers every noun, which is why this list shows the plural for each one. Our plurals guide explains the patterns worth learning.

No. Mass nouns like Milch, Obst and Durst have no everyday plural, and a few exist only in the plural (Eltern, Großeltern). Where no plural exists, this table shows a dash rather than inventing one — the entries were checked against German Wiktionary, so a dash means the dictionary records no plural, not that we are missing one.

Yes. The free PDF and CSV both include every noun with its article, plural and level — no signup needed. The CSV imports cleanly into Anki or Excel.

No. These nouns come from our own Goethe-aligned A1–B1 curriculum — the same word set that powers our lessons. The official Goethe-Institut Wortliste is copyrighted and is not redistributed here.