The most common German feminine nouns (die)

Every feminine noun in the top 5,000, in its dictionary form and in frequency order, so the die-words you will meet most come first. Feminine is the largest group, and the most predictable: -ung, -heit, -keit, -schaft and -ion nouns are almost all die. The endings and their exceptions, counted, are on the der, die or das page.

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