die Klage
Meaning in English: lawsuit; complaint
Example
Der Nachbar hat eine Klage gegen uns eingereicht.
The neighbour has filed a lawsuit against us.
Der, die or das?
Klage is feminine: die Klage. 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 Klage?
Klage is number 3,550 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 42,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,546zeitnahpromptly, soon
- 3,547aufbauento set up, to build up
- 3,548musikalischemusical
- 3,549betreffento affect, to concern
- 3,550die Klagelawsuit; complaint
- 3,551Variantenvariants, versions
- 3,552bezogenmoved into; related (to); covered
- 3,553die Begeisterungenthusiasm, excitement
- 3,554Verbändeassociations; bandages
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,550
- The most common German nouns#1,514
- German C1 vocabulary#193
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#497
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.