die Katastrophe
Meaning in English: catastrophe, disaster
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Der Umzug war eine einzige Katastrophe.
The move was a complete disaster.
Der, die or das?
Katastrophe is feminine: die Katastrophe. 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 Katastrophe?
Katastrophe is number 4,508 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 56,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,504Phasenphases, stages
- 4,505ausgewertetevaluated, analysed
- 4,506die Künstlerinartist (female)
- 4,507hervorragendexcellent, outstanding
- 4,508die Katastrophecatastrophe, disaster
- 4,509verknüpftlinked, connected
- 4,510die Revolutionrevolution
- 4,511das Verbrechencrime
- 4,512verzeichnetrecorded, registered
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,508
- The most common German nouns#1,962
- German B1 vocabulary#1,470
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#641
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.