die Form
Meaning in English: form, shape
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Der Kuchen hat die Form eines Herzens.
The cake is shaped like a heart.
Der, die or das?
Form is feminine: die Form. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Form in the top 5,000
These forms of Form are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Kekse gibt es in vielen lustigen Formen.
The biscuits come in lots of funny shapes.
How common is Form?
Form is number 470 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 188 times per million words — about once every 5,300 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 58% 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
- 466kaumhardly, barely
- 467die Nutzunguse, usage
- 468dichyou (accusative, informal)
- 469kleinesmall, little
- 470die Formform, shape
- 471hinterbehind
- 472führtleads; runs
- 473die Förderungfunding, support; promotion
- 474wichtigeimportant
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#470
- The 1,000 most common German words#470
- The 5,000 most common German words#470
- The most common German nouns#110
- German B1 vocabulary#83
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#34
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.