die Behörde
Meaning in English: authority, (government) office
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Für den Pass musst du zur Behörde.
You have to go to the authorities for the passport.
Der, die or das?
Behörde is feminine: die Behörde. 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.
Forms of Behörde in the top 5,000
These forms of Behörde are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Behörden haben die Straße gesperrt.
The authorities have closed the road.
How common is Behörde?
Behörde is number 1,805 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 51 times per million words — about once every 20,000 words. Its most frequent form is Behörden (#891).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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#1,805
- The most common German nouns#716
- German B1 vocabulary#573
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#246
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.