die Börse
Meaning in English: stock exchange, stock market
Example
Seine Eltern haben ihr Geld an der Börse verloren.
His parents lost their money on the stock market.
Der, die or das?
Börse is feminine: die Börse. 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 Börse?
Börse is number 3,986 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 48,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 3,982Krankenhäusernhospitals (dative)
- 3,983Ausstellungenexhibitions
- 3,984freierfree, freelance; freer
- 3,985die Ministerinminister (female)
- 3,986die Börsestock exchange, stock market
- 3,987die Diagnosediagnosis
- 3,988erstmalfirst (of all), for now
- 3,989brachtenbrought
- 3,990zugeordnetassigned, allocated
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,986
- The most common German nouns#1,722
- German B2 vocabulary#904
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#553
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.