die Bank
Meaning in English: bank, bench
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Ich muss noch Geld von der Bank holen.
I still have to get money from the bank.
Der, die or das?
Bank is feminine: die Bank. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Bank in the top 5,000
These forms of Bank are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Am Wochenende haben die Banken geschlossen.
The banks are closed at the weekend.
How common is Bank?
Bank is number 1,035 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 87 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Words built on Bank:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,031freienfree, open (inflected)
- 1,032benötigtneeded, required
- 1,033einzelneindividual, single, some
- 1,034unabhängigindependent
- 1,035die Bankbank, bench
- 1,036hierzuon this, for this
- 1,037wendento turn
- 1,038weitererfurther, another
- 1,039die Wissenschaftscience
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,035
- The most common German nouns#358
- German A1 vocabulary#365
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#126
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.