die Grenze
Meaning in English: border, limit
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An der Grenze mussten wir lange warten.
We had to wait a long time at the border.
Der, die or das?
Grenze is feminine: die Grenze. 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 Grenze in the top 5,000
These forms of Grenze are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Auch meine Geduld hat Grenzen.
Even my patience has its limits.
How common is Grenze?
Grenze is number 1,712 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 53 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words. Its most frequent form is Grenzen (#1,186).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,708kurzeshort, brief
- 1,709vergebento award, to forgive; awarded
- 1,710die Werbungadvertising, advert
- 1,711keinernobody, none
- 1,712die Grenzeborder, limit
- 1,713stolzproud
- 1,714aufmerksamattentive, alert
- 1,715die Intelligenzintelligence
- 1,716sparento save
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,712
- The most common German nouns#677
- German A2 vocabulary#402
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#234
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.