die Baustelle
Meaning in English: construction site, roadworks
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Wegen einer Baustelle standen wir im Stau.
We were stuck in traffic because of roadworks.
Der, die or das?
Baustelle is feminine: die Baustelle. 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 Baustelle?
Baustelle is number 3,499 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 41,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Baustelle is built from die Stelle (job, position; place, spot).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,495die Landeshauptstadtstate capital
- 3,496nahnear, close
- 3,497Plattformenplatforms
- 3,498künftigefuture
- 3,499die Baustelleconstruction site, roadworks
- 3,500die Bereitschaftwillingness, readiness; on-call duty
- 3,501der Typtype; guy
- 3,502Kooperationenpartnerships, cooperations
- 3,503das Tablettablet (computer)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,499
- The most common German nouns#1,487
- German A2 vocabulary#747
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#489
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.