German noun, feminine · CEFR A1

die Blume

Meaning in English: flower

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · dieLevel A11 form in the top 5,000

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Nature in German list.

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Example

Er hat ihr eine Blume mitgebracht.

He brought her a flower.

Der, die or das?

Blume is feminine: die Blume. 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 Blume in the top 5,000

Blume itself is not in the top 5,000, but this form of it is:

Blumen#4,835
flowersA1

Kannst du bitte die Blumen gießen?
Can you water the flowers, please?

How common is Blume?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Blume appears 5.0 times per million words — about once every 200,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form Blumen (#4,835) is in the top 5,000, though.

A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

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