die Kategorie
Meaning in English: category
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Test my vocabularyExample
In welcher Kategorie finde ich Kinderbücher?
Which category do I find children's books in?
Der, die or das?
Kategorie is feminine: die Kategorie. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ie are die in 20 of 21 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Kategorie in the top 5,000
These forms of Kategorie are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Produkte sind in Kategorien sortiert.
The products are sorted into categories.
How common is Kategorie?
Kategorie is number 2,148 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 42 times per million words — about once every 24,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 2,144beziehento refer to; to receive; to move into
- 2,145dargestelltshown, depicted, portrayed
- 2,146die Medizinmedicine
- 2,147interessiertinterested; interests
- 2,148die Kategoriecategory
- 2,149danebennext to it, beside it; besides
- 2,150der Trefferhit, goal; search result
- 2,151einfachesimple, easy (inflected)
- 2,152Situationensituations
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,148
- The most common German nouns#877
- German B1 vocabulary#685
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#291
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.