die Grundschule
Meaning in English: primary school
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Unsere Tochter kommt bald in die Grundschule.
Our daughter is starting primary school soon.
Der, die or das?
Grundschule is feminine: die Grundschule. 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 Grundschule in the top 5,000
These forms of Grundschule are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In vielen Grundschulen fehlen Lehrer.
Many primary schools are short of teachers.
How common is Grundschule?
Grundschule is number 1,901 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 48 times per million words — about once every 21,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Grundschule is built from der Grund (reason; ground) + die Schule (school).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,897angezeigtdisplayed, shown; reported (to police)
- 1,898welchemwhich (dative)
- 1,899ständigconstantly, all the time
- 1,900generellgenerally, in general
- 1,901die Grundschuleprimary school
- 1,902der Fußballfootball, soccer
- 1,903spielteplayed
- 1,904jüngstenyoungest; most recent
- 1,905Grundlagenbasics, foundations
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,901
- The most common German nouns#751
- German A2 vocabulary#448
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#255
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.