die Kartoffel
Meaning in English: potato
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Food and drink in German list.
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Wie lange muss die Kartoffel kochen?
How long does the potato need to boil?
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Kartoffel is feminine: die Kartoffel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Kartoffel?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Kartoffel appears 2.1 times per million words — about once every 490,000 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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