die Menge
Meaning in English: amount, lot, crowd
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Wir haben eine Menge Spaß gehabt.
We had a lot of fun.
Der, die or das?
Menge is feminine: die Menge. 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 Menge in the top 5,000
These forms of Menge are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Im Winter kochen wir große Mengen Suppe.
In winter we cook large quantities of soup.
How common is Menge?
Menge is number 1,128 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 80 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% 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
- 1,124Autoscars
- 1,125allgemeinengeneral
- 1,126die Integrationintegration
- 1,127die Bahnrailway, train, track
- 1,128die Mengeamount, lot, crowd
- 1,129meinenmy (acc. masc., dat. pl.)
- 1,130der Punktpoint, dot, full stop
- 1,131wartento wait
- 1,132das Torgoal, gate
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,128
- The most common German nouns#400
- German B1 vocabulary#322
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#139
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.