German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Ferne
Meaning in English: distance, far away
Example
In der Ferne sieht man schon die Berge.
You can already see the mountains in the distance.
Der, die or das?
Ferne is feminine: die Ferne. 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 Ferne?
Ferne is number 3,923 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 47,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 3,919kündigento quit, to cancel, to give notice
- 3,920allzuall too, too
- 3,921die Flexibilitätflexibility
- 3,922katholischenCatholic
- 3,923die Fernedistance, far away
- 3,924näherecloser, further (details)
- 3,925Feuerwehrenfire brigades
- 3,926VereintenUnited (as in United Nations)
- 3,927Vertreternrepresentatives (dative)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,923
- The most common German nouns#1,697
- German B2 vocabulary#881
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#545
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