das Auge
Meaning in English: eye
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Ich habe etwas im Auge.
I've got something in my eye.
Der, die or das?
Auge is neuter: das Auge. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -e are usually die (170 of 193 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Auge in the top 5,000
These forms of Auge are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Das Baby hat blaue Augen.
The baby has blue eyes.
How common is Auge?
Auge is number 2,373 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 38 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words. Its most frequent form is Augen (#1,282).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,369die Erstellungcreation, preparation
- 2,370umfassendecomprehensive, extensive (inflected)
- 2,371globalenglobal (inflected)
- 2,372das Gasgas
- 2,373das Augeeye
- 2,374der Aufwandeffort, expense
- 2,375hinwegover, across (with über)
- 2,376fertigready, finished, done
- 2,377bestimmento determine, to decide
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,373
- The most common German nouns#987
- German A1 vocabulary#577
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#126
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.