German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Kürze
Meaning in English: brevity (in Kürze: shortly)
Example
Der Zug fährt in Kürze ab.
The train will be leaving shortly.
Der, die or das?
Kürze is feminine: die Kürze. 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 Kürze?
Kürze is number 4,464 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 55,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,460Emotionenemotions
- 4,461nachfolgendenfollowing, subsequent
- 4,462angehtconcerns; tackles
- 4,463NiederlandenNetherlands (dative)
- 4,464die Kürzebrevity (in Kürze: shortly)
- 4,465Stoffesubstances, fabrics
- 4,466jenerthat, that one (formal)
- 4,467vornehmento carry out; to plan (sich)
- 4,468gesundenhealthy
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,464
- The most common German nouns#1,942
- German B2 vocabulary#1,075
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#633
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