German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Gefahr
Meaning in English: danger, risk
Example
Bei Glatteis besteht große Gefahr auf den Straßen.
When there's black ice, the roads are very dangerous.
Der, die or das?
Gefahr is feminine: die Gefahr. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gefahr?
Gefahr is number 987 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 91 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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- The most common German nouns#343
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- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#121
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