die Alternative
Meaning in English: alternative
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Gibt es eine vegetarische Alternative?
Is there a vegetarian alternative?
Der, die or das?
Alternative is feminine: die Alternative. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Alternative?
Alternative is number 1,489 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 62 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,485das Ministeriumministry
- 1,486individuellindividual, individually
- 1,487frühenearly
- 1,488das Designdesign
- 1,489die Alternativealternative
- 1,490immerhinat least, after all
- 1,491die Infrastrukturinfrastructure
- 1,492die Unterlagendocuments, papers
- 1,493das Smartphonesmartphone
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,489
- The most common German nouns#564
- German B1 vocabulary#454
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#197
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.