die Kontrolle
Meaning in English: control, check
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Im Zug gab es heute eine Kontrolle.
There was a ticket check on the train today.
Der, die or das?
Kontrolle is feminine: die Kontrolle. 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 Kontrolle in the top 5,000
These forms of Kontrolle are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
An der Grenze gibt es wieder Kontrollen.
There are checks at the border again.
How common is Kontrolle?
Kontrolle is number 1,272 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 72 times per million words — about once every 14,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
- 1,268steigtrises, climbs, gets on
- 1,269fördertpromotes, supports, funds
- 1,270schönbeautiful, nice
- 1,271sprachspoke
- 1,272die Kontrollecontrol, check
- 1,273ähnlichsimilar
- 1,274personenbezogenenpersonal (data)
- 1,275gesperrtclosed, blocked
- 1,276die Produktionproduction
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,272
- The most common German nouns#460
- German B1 vocabulary#375
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#160
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.