der Löwe
Meaning in English: lion
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
Example
Der Löwe liegt faul in der Sonne.
The lion is lying lazily in the sun.
Der, die or das?
Löwe is masculine: der Löwe. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -e are usually die (170 of 193 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Löwe?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Löwe appears 3.5 times per million words — about once every 280,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.