German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Hitze
Meaning in English: heat
Example
Bei dieser Hitze kann ich nicht schlafen.
I can't sleep in this heat.
Der, die or das?
Hitze is feminine: die Hitze. 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 Hitze?
Hitze is number 3,254 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 26 times per million words — about once every 38,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,250mitmachento join in, to take part
- 3,251Autorenauthors
- 3,252Jahrzehntedecades
- 3,253langerlong (inflected)
- 3,254die Hitzeheat
- 3,255städtischenmunicipal, urban
- 3,256die Landschaftlandscape, scenery
- 3,257bedeutento mean
- 3,258gerechnetcalculated, expected
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,254
- The most common German nouns#1,379
- German B1 vocabulary#1,060
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#455
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