die Kommune
Meaning in English: municipality, local authority
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Jede Kommune regelt die Müllabfuhr selbst.
Each municipality organises its own rubbish collection.
Der, die or das?
Kommune is feminine: die Kommune. 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 Kommune in the top 5,000
These forms of Kommune are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Viele Kommunen haben kein Geld für neue Schwimmbäder.
Many local authorities have no money for new pools.
How common is Kommune?
Kommune is number 3,343 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 39,000 words. Its most frequent form is Kommunen (#756).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,339führtenled, ran
- 3,340die Infektioninfection
- 3,341die Spendedonation
- 3,342Aufnahmenrecordings, photos, shots
- 3,343die Kommunemunicipality, local authority
- 3,344gewünschtendesired, requested
- 3,345das Albumalbum
- 3,346ausgerichtetaimed, geared; hosted
- 3,347schönstenmost beautiful, nicest
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,343
- The most common German nouns#1,416
- German C1 vocabulary#171
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#468
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.