German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Nähe
Meaning in English: vicinity, closeness
Example
Gibt es hier in der Nähe einen Geldautomaten?
Is there a cash machine near here?
Der, die or das?
Nähe is feminine: die Nähe. 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 Nähe?
Nähe is number 793 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 112 times per million words — about once every 8,900 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 789die Bevölkerungpopulation
- 790der Alltageveryday life
- 791Expertenexperts
- 792obwohlalthough
- 793die Nähevicinity, closeness
- 794größtenbiggest, largest
- 795persönlichenpersonal
- 796gewinnenwin
- 797teilenshare, divide
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#793
- The 5,000 most common German words#793
- The most common German nouns#255
- German A2 vocabulary#188
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#83
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