das Finale
Meaning in English: final
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Wir schauen das Finale bei Freunden.
We're watching the final at friends' place.
Der, die or das?
Finale is neuter: das Finale. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -e are usually die (170 of 193 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Finale?
Finale is number 1,881 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 49 times per million words — about once every 20,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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
- 1,877lädtinvites; loads, charges
- 1,878gebautbuilt
- 1,879erfolgreichensuccessful
- 1,880größerenlarger, bigger
- 1,881das Finalefinal
- 1,882siehesee (in references)
- 1,883gelegtlaid, put
- 1,884die Debattedebate
- 1,885langfristiglong-term
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,881
- The most common German nouns#745
- German B1 vocabulary#592
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#99
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.