die Lehre
Meaning in English: apprenticeship, teaching, lesson
Example
Nach der Schule hat er eine Lehre als Koch gemacht.
After school he did an apprenticeship as a cook.
Der, die or das?
Lehre is feminine: die Lehre. 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 Lehre?
Lehre is number 1,318 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 69 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
- 1,314vermeidento avoid
- 1,315der Sprecherspokesman, speaker
- 1,316verändertchanged
- 1,317Punktenpoints (dative plural)
- 1,318die Lehreapprenticeship, teaching, lesson
- 1,319nahmtook
- 1,320die Tochterdaughter
- 1,321das Risikorisk
- 1,322die Planungplanning
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,318
- The most common German nouns#481
- German B1 vocabulary#395
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#169
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.