die Kirche
Meaning in English: church
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Die Kirche steht mitten im Dorf.
The church stands in the middle of the village.
Der, die or das?
Kirche is feminine: die Kirche. 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 Kirche in the top 5,000
These forms of Kirche are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In der Altstadt gibt es drei alte Kirchen.
There are three old churches in the old town.
How common is Kirche?
Kirche is number 715 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 126 times per million words — about once every 7,900 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 61% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 711obenabove, upstairs, at the top
- 712Bereichenareas, fields (dative plural)
- 713brauchenneed
- 714die Beratungadvice, consultation
- 715die Kirchechurch
- 716lesenread
- 717fandfound; thought (opinion)
- 718bereitready, prepared, willing
- 719der Umganghandling, dealing (with)
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#715
- The 5,000 most common German words#715
- The most common German nouns#214
- German A2 vocabulary#176
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#69
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.