German noun, feminine · CEFR B1

die Figur

Meaning in English: figure, character, physique

Rank 4,368 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B12 forms in the list

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Example

Welche Figur im Film hat dir am besten gefallen?

Which character in the film did you like best?

Der, die or das?

Figur is feminine: die Figur. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ur are die in 12 of 14 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Figur in the top 5,000

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

Figuren#3,958
figures, charactersB1

Die Figuren in dem Roman wirken sehr echt.
The characters in the novel seem very real.

How common is Figur?

Figur is number 4,368 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 54,000 words. Its most frequent form is Figuren (#3,958).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 4,364ausländischenforeign
  2. 4,365der Kommentarcomment, commentary
  3. 4,366niedrigenlow
  4. 4,367Auszubildendentrainees, apprentices
  5. 4,368die Figurfigure, character, physique
  6. 4,369heutigetoday's, present-day
  7. 4,370Zielgruppentarget groups
  8. 4,371das Obstfruit
  9. 4,372einbezogenincluded, involved

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