die Ente
Meaning in English: duck
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
Example
Die Kinder füttern die Ente am See.
The children are feeding the duck at the lake.
Der, die or das?
Ente is feminine: die Ente. 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 Ente?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Ente appears 2.3 times per million words — about once every 430,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.