die Idee
Meaning in English: idea
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Das ist eine gute Idee!
That's a good idea!
Der, die or das?
Idee is feminine: die Idee. 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 Idee in the top 5,000
These forms of Idee are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Hast du Ideen für ihr Geschenk?
Have you got any ideas for her present?
How common is Idee?
Idee is number 890 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 100 times per million words — about once every 10,000 words. Its most frequent form is Ideen (#750).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% 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
- 886stetsalways, constantly
- 887Hochschulenuniversities, colleges
- 888gesamteentire, whole
- 889bekommtgets, receives
- 890die Ideeidea
- 891Behördenauthorities
- 892die Vielfaltdiversity, variety
- 893wählenchoose; vote; dial
- 894Cookiescookies (web); biscuits
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#890
- The 5,000 most common German words#890
- The most common German nouns#297
- German A2 vocabulary#212
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#103
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.