German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Freude
Meaning in English: joy, pleasure
Example
Mit dem Geschenk hast du mir eine große Freude gemacht.
You made me very happy with the present.
Der, die or das?
Freude is feminine: die Freude. 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.
How common is Freude?
Freude is number 1,141 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 79 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% 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
- 1,137beschäftigtbusy, employed
- 1,138hierfürfor this
- 1,139Regionenregions
- 1,140starkestrong
- 1,141die Freudejoy, pleasure
- 1,142die Softwaresoftware
- 1,143die Generationgeneration
- 1,144Antwortenanswers
- 1,145gewähltelected, chosen, dialled
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,141
- The most common German nouns#405
- German B1 vocabulary#327
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#140
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