German noun, feminine · CEFR B2

die Fläche

Meaning in English: area, surface

Rank 2,083 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B22 forms in the list
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Example

Die Wohnung hat eine Fläche von achtzig Quadratmetern.

The flat has an area of eighty square metres.

Der, die or das?

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

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

Flächen#2,157
areas, surfacesB2

Auf den freien Flächen sollen Wohnungen entstehen.
Flats are to be built on the vacant plots.

How common is Fläche?

Fläche is number 2,083 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 44 times per million words — about once every 23,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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

  1. 2,079viertenfourth (inflected)
  2. 2,080Beziehungenrelationships, relations
  3. 2,081der Freundfriend, boyfriend
  4. 2,082verlängertextended, renewed
  5. 2,083die Flächearea, surface
  6. 2,084der Frankenfranc(s) (Swiss currency)
  7. 2,085beantwortento answer
  8. 2,086der GottGod, god
  9. 2,087Behinderungendisabilities; obstructions

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