German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Ampel
Meaning in English: traffic light(s); coalition
Example
An der Ampel links abbiegen, dann sind Sie da.
Turn left at the traffic lights and you're there.
Der, die or das?
Ampel is feminine: die Ampel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Ampel?
Ampel is number 3,044 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 29 times per million words — about once every 35,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,040Vorstellungenideas, expectations; shows
- 3,041geklärtclarified, settled
- 3,042der Pfarrerpriest, pastor
- 3,043die Präsentationpresentation
- 3,044die Ampeltraffic light(s); coalition
- 3,045der Schneesnow
- 3,046nochmalsagain, once more
- 3,047die Schwangerschaftpregnancy
- 3,048durchschnittlichon average, average
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,044
- The most common German nouns#1,282
- German A2 vocabulary#661
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#432
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