German noun, feminine · CEFR A1

die Bäckerei

Meaning in English: bakery

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · dieLevel A1

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Places in town in German list.

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Example

Die Bäckerei an der Ecke hat das beste Brot.

The bakery on the corner has the best bread.

Der, die or das?

Bäckerei is feminine: die Bäckerei. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ei are die in 5 of 5 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Bäckerei?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Bäckerei appears 6.2 times per million words — about once every 160,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.

A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

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