German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Bühne
Meaning in English: stage
Example
Vor dem Auftritt war sie hinter der Bühne sehr nervös.
Before the show she was very nervous backstage.
Der, die or das?
Bühne is feminine: die Bühne. 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 Bühne?
Bühne is number 1,106 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 82 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,106
- The most common German nouns#389
- German B1 vocabulary#314
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#134
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