die Gitarre
Meaning in English: guitar
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Hobbies and sport in German list.
Example
Er spielt seit zehn Jahren Gitarre.
He has been playing the guitar for ten years.
Der, die or das?
Gitarre is feminine: die Gitarre. 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 Gitarre?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Gitarre appears 7.3 times per million words — about once every 140,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.