German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Höhe
Meaning in English: height; level, amount
Example
Der Turm hat eine Höhe von hundert Metern.
The tower is a hundred metres high.
Der, die or das?
Höhe is feminine: die Höhe. 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 Höhe?
Höhe is number 439 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 200 times per million words — about once every 5,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Höhe:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 435jedeevery, each (feminine)
- 436beideboth
- 437der JuliJuly
- 438die Bildungeducation; formation
- 439die Höheheight; level, amount
- 440verschiedenevarious, different
- 441der JanuarJanuary
- 442bringento bring, to take
- 443zuvorbefore, previously
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