die Liste
Meaning in English: list
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Schreib Milch bitte auf die Liste.
Please put milk on the list.
Der, die or das?
Liste is feminine: die Liste. 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 Liste?
Liste is number 1,283 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 71 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. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,279berichtento report, to tell
- 1,280privatenprivate
- 1,281feiernto celebrate, to party
- 1,282Augeneyes
- 1,283die Listelist
- 1,284der Momentmoment
- 1,285schnellerfaster, quicker
- 1,286Funktionenfunctions, features
- 1,287livelive
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,283
- The most common German nouns#464
- German A1 vocabulary#411
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#162
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.