German noun, feminine · CEFR C1
die Anklage
Meaning in English: charge, indictment; prosecution
Example
Die Anklage lautet auf Betrug.
The charge is fraud.
Der, die or das?
Anklage is feminine: die Anklage. 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 Anklage?
Anklage is number 3,647 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,643geleistetachieved, done, performed
- 3,644wirksameffective
- 3,645italienischenItalian
- 3,646der Bergmountain, hill
- 3,647die Anklagecharge, indictment; prosecution
- 3,648Touristentourists
- 3,649der Abschiedfarewell, goodbye
- 3,650gezahltpaid
- 3,651verschobenpostponed; moved
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,647
- The most common German nouns#1,562
- German C1 vocabulary#210
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#512
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