die Geschichte
Meaning in English: history; story
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Opa erzählt uns eine lustige Geschichte.
Grandpa is telling us a funny story.
Der, die or das?
Geschichte is feminine: die Geschichte. 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 Geschichte in the top 5,000
These forms of Geschichte are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Opa erzählt gern Geschichten von früher.
Grandpa likes telling stories about the old days.
How common is Geschichte?
Geschichte is number 412 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 214 times per million words — about once every 4,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% 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
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#412
- The 1,000 most common German words#412
- The 5,000 most common German words#412
- The most common German nouns#82
- German A2 vocabulary#101
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#25
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.