German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Basis
Meaning in English: basis, base
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Vertrauen ist die Basis jeder Freundschaft.
Trust is the basis of every friendship.
Der, die or das?
Basis is feminine: die Basis. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Basis?
Basis is number 869 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 101 times per million words — about once every 9,900 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% 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
- 865manchmalsometimes
- 866ChinaChina
- 867sogenannteso-called
- 868meinermy (dat./gen. feminine); mine
- 869die Basisbasis, base
- 870Spielegames, matches
- 871indemby (doing)
- 872wichtigstenmost important
- 873die Webseiteweb page, website
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- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#97
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.