German noun, feminine · CEFR A1
die Küche
Meaning in English: kitchen; cuisine
Example
Auf Partys stehen immer alle in der Küche.
At parties everyone always stands in the kitchen.
Der, die or das?
Küche is feminine: die Küche. 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 Küche?
Küche is number 2,224 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 41 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,220beantragento apply for
- 2,221zusätzlichenadditional, extra (inflected)
- 2,222schriftlichin writing, written
- 2,223anmeldento register, to sign up
- 2,224die Küchekitchen; cuisine
- 2,225Empfehlungenrecommendations
- 2,226klärento clarify, to sort out
- 2,227das Konto(bank) account
- 2,228das Klimaclimate
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,224
- The most common German nouns#916
- German A1 vocabulary#559
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#299
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.