German noun, feminine · CEFR A1

die Jacke

Meaning in English: jacket

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · dieLevel A1

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Clothes in German list.

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Example

Vergiss deine Jacke nicht!

Don't forget your jacket!

Der, die or das?

Jacke is feminine: die Jacke. 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 Jacke?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Jacke appears 7.3 times per million words — about once every 140,000 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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