German noun, feminine · CEFR A1

die Farbe

Meaning in English: colour, paint

Rank 2,493 of 5,000noun · dieLevel A12 forms in the list

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Example

Welche Farbe hat dein neues Auto?
What colour is your new car?

Der, die or das?

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

These forms of Farbe are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Farben#2,291

colours; paintsA1

Im Herbst haben die Blätter wunderschöne Farben.
In autumn the leaves have beautiful colours.

How common is Farbe?

Farbe is number 2,493 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 36 times per million words — about once every 28,000 words. Its most frequent form is Farben (#2,291).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

Next to it in the frequency list

2,489folgendefollowing
2,490das Holzwood
2,491diskutierendiscuss
2,492komme(I) come
2,493die Farbecolour, paint
2,494bewegtmoved, moves
2,495der Arbeitsplatzworkplace, job
2,496die Redaktioneditorial office, editors
2,497gesichertsecured, saved (data)

In these word lists

The 5,000 most common German words#2,493
The most common German nouns#1,039
German A1 vocabulary#590
The most common German feminine nouns (die)#341

Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.