German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Liebe
Meaning in English: love
Example
Das war Liebe auf den ersten Blick.
It was love at first sight.
Der, die or das?
Liebe is feminine: die Liebe. 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 Liebe?
Liebe is number 852 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 104 times per million words — about once every 9,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 848erlebenexperience
- 849der Filmfilm, movie
- 850erkennenrecognize, realize
- 851eingesetztused, deployed
- 852die Liebelove
- 853schreibenwrite
- 854arbeitetworks
- 855das Krankenhaushospital
- 856der Artikelarticle
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#852
- The 5,000 most common German words#852
- The most common German nouns#281
- German A2 vocabulary#202
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#94
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.