das Gebäude
Meaning in English: building
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Das Gebäude ist über hundert Jahre alt.
The building is over a hundred years old.
Der, die or das?
Gebäude is neuter: das Gebäude. 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.
Forms of Gebäude in the top 5,000
These forms of Gebäude are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In vielen alten Gebäuden gibt es keinen Aufzug.
Many old buildings have no lift.
Der Eingang ist auf der Rückseite des Gebäudes.
The entrance is at the back of the building.
How common is Gebäude?
Gebäude is number 704 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 128 times per million words — about once every 7,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 61% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 700dagegenagainst it; on the other hand
- 701künftigin future; future
- 702Fällencases (dative plural)
- 703der Antragapplication, request
- 704das Gebäudebuilding
- 705das Wochenendeweekend
- 706darinin it, in there
- 707Einrichtungenfacilities, institutions
- 708Herausforderungenchallenges
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#704
- The 5,000 most common German words#704
- The most common German nouns#207
- German A2 vocabulary#174
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#27
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.