die Feuerwehr
Meaning in English: fire brigade
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Ruf sofort die Feuerwehr!
Call the fire brigade right away!
Der, die or das?
Feuerwehr is feminine: die Feuerwehr. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Feuerwehr in the top 5,000
These forms of Feuerwehr are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Drei Feuerwehren waren beim Brand im Einsatz.
Three fire brigades were called out to the fire.
How common is Feuerwehr?
Feuerwehr is number 678 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 132 times per million words — about once every 7,600 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 61% 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
- 674der Sportsport(s), exercise
- 675der Kontaktcontact
- 676erwartetexpected; expects
- 677leiderunfortunately
- 678die Feuerwehrfire brigade
- 679der Besuchervisitor(s)
- 680der Metermetre
- 681geplantplanned
- 682gekommencome (past participle)
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#678
- The 5,000 most common German words#678
- The most common German nouns#198
- German A2 vocabulary#170
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#67
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.