German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Erde
Meaning in English: earth, soil, ground
Example
Die Erde im Blumentopf ist ganz trocken.
The soil in the flowerpot is completely dry.
Der, die or das?
Erde is feminine: die Erde. 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 Erde?
Erde is number 1,636 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 56 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,632der Vorstandboard (of directors), committee
- 1,633schafftmanages, creates
- 1,634die Ligaleague
- 1,635Verletzungeninjuries
- 1,636die Erdeearth, soil, ground
- 1,637erfasstrecorded, registered, gripped
- 1,638interessierteinterested (people)
- 1,639der Brandfire, blaze
- 1,640das Niveaulevel, standard
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,636
- The most common German nouns#638
- German A2 vocabulary#378
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#219
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.