German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Chemie
Meaning in English: chemistry
Example
In Chemie hatte ich immer schlechte Noten.
I always had bad marks in chemistry.
Der, die or das?
Chemie is feminine: die Chemie. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ie are die in 20 of 21 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Chemie?
Chemie is number 3,438 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 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.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,434der Geschmacktaste, flavour
- 3,435der Hauptbahnhofmain (railway) station
- 3,436die Telefonnummerphone number
- 3,437gebrauchtneeded; used, second-hand
- 3,438die Chemiechemistry
- 3,439aktualisiertupdated
- 3,440keinerleino … whatsoever, no … at all
- 3,441zentralcentral(ly)
- 3,442zumalespecially since, all the more so as
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,438
- The most common German nouns#1,458
- German A2 vocabulary#737
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#477
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.