die Debatte
Meaning in English: debate
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Über das Thema gibt es eine heftige Debatte.
There's a heated debate about the topic.
Der, die or das?
Debatte is feminine: die Debatte. 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 Debatte in the top 5,000
These forms of Debatte are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Über das Thema gab es hitzige Debatten.
There were heated debates on the topic.
How common is Debatte?
Debatte is number 1,884 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 49 times per million words — about once every 21,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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
- 1,880größerenlarger, bigger
- 1,881das Finalefinal
- 1,882siehesee (in references)
- 1,883gelegtlaid, put
- 1,884die Debattedebate
- 1,885langfristiglong-term
- 1,886geplanteplanned
- 1,887bekanntewell-known, familiar
- 1,888langsamslow(ly)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,884
- The most common German nouns#746
- German B2 vocabulary#285
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#253
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.