die Katze
Meaning in English: cat
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
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Unsere Katze schläft den ganzen Tag.
Our cat sleeps all day.
Der, die or das?
Katze is feminine: die Katze. 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 Katze in the top 5,000
Katze itself is not in the top 5,000, but this form of it is:
Unsere Nachbarn haben drei Katzen.
Our neighbours have three cats.
How common is Katze?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Katze appears 14 times per million words — about once every 70,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form Katzen (#4,773) is in the top 5,000, though.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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