German noun, feminine · CEFR A1

die Karte

Meaning in English: card, map, ticket, menu

Rank 1,583 of 5,000noun · dieLevel A12 forms in the list
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Example

Kann ich mit Karte bezahlen?

Can I pay by card?

Der, die or das?

Karte is feminine: die Karte. 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 Karte in the top 5,000

These forms of Karte are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Karten#1,832
cards, tickets, mapsA1

Ich habe zwei Karten für das Konzert.
I have two tickets for the concert.

How common is Karte?

Karte is number 1,583 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 58 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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

  1. 1,579hängthangs, depends (on)
  2. 1,580seitdemsince then; since
  3. 1,581vorbereitetprepared
  4. 1,582daraufhinthereupon, as a result
  5. 1,583die Kartecard, map, ticket, menu
  6. 1,584das Schuljahrschool year
  7. 1,585das Drittelthird
  8. 1,586gespieltplayed
  9. 1,587vorgesehenplanned, intended, provided for

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