die Linie
Meaning in English: line, route
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Nehmen Sie die Linie 5 bis zum Rathaus.
Take the number 5 to the town hall.
Der, die or das?
Linie is feminine: die Linie. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ie are die in 20 of 21 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Linie?
Linie is number 1,309 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 70 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
- 1,305Entscheidungendecisions
- 1,306der Freistaatfree state (Bavaria, Saxony…)
- 1,307bestimmtcertainly, surely; certain
- 1,308gespeichertsaved, stored
- 1,309die Linieline, route
- 1,310der Schadendamage, harm
- 1,311plötzlichsuddenly
- 1,312nahenear, close
- 1,313die Weiterbildungfurther training
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,309
- The most common German nouns#476
- German B1 vocabulary#390
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#167
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.