German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Mark
Meaning in English: mark (former German currency)
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Früher hat ein Brot zwei Mark gekostet.
A loaf of bread used to cost two marks.
Der, die or das?
Mark is feminine: die Mark. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Mark?
Mark is number 3,961 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 47,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
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In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,961
- The most common German nouns#1,709
- German B2 vocabulary#894
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#548
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