German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Armee
Meaning in English: army
Example
Sein Großvater war zwei Jahre bei der Armee.
His grandfather was in the army for two years.
Der, die or das?
Armee is feminine: die Armee. 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 Armee?
Armee is number 2,325 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 39 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,321verlangento demand, to ask for
- 2,322digitalerdigital (inflected)
- 2,323das Papierpaper
- 2,324der Einwohnerinhabitant(s), resident(s)
- 2,325die Armeearmy
- 2,326gesorgtensured, caused; taken care
- 2,327interessanteinteresting (inflected)
- 2,328ansonstenotherwise, apart from that
- 2,329der Großteilmajority, large part
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,325
- The most common German nouns#962
- German B2 vocabulary#405
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#314
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