die Hose
Meaning in English: trousers, pants
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Clothes in German list.
Example
Die Hose ist mir zu lang.
These trousers are too long for me.
Der, die or das?
Hose is feminine: die Hose. 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 Hose?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Hose appears 7.8 times per million words — about once every 130,000 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.