die Matratze
Meaning in English: mattress
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Die neue Matratze ist viel bequemer.
The new mattress is much more comfortable.
Der, die or das?
Matratze is feminine: die Matratze. 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.
Forms of Matratze in the top 5,000
These forms of Matratze are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Matratzen im Hotel waren viel zu weich.
The mattresses in the hotel were far too soft.
How common is Matratze?
Matratze is number 1,827 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 50 times per million words — about once every 20,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% 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
- 1,823höherenhigher
- 1,824geprüftchecked, tested
- 1,825verlierento lose
- 1,826solleshould, is supposed to (reported speech)
- 1,827die Matratzemattress
- 1,828betrifftconcerns, affects
- 1,829der Flughafenairport
- 1,830zuständigeresponsible, relevant
- 1,831der Ratadvice; council
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,827
- The most common German nouns#724
- German B1 vocabulary#577
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#250
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.