die Nase
Meaning in English: nose
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Meine Nase läuft schon den ganzen Tag.
My nose has been running all day.
Der, die or das?
Nase is feminine: die Nase. 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 Nase?
Nase is number 3,787 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 45,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,783daßthat (old spelling of dass)
- 3,784belastetburdened, strained; weighs on
- 3,785Gymnasiumsof the grammar school (genitive)
- 3,786der DienstagabendTuesday evening
- 3,787die Nasenose
- 3,788Kommentarecomments
- 3,789beeinflusstinfluenced, affects
- 3,790das Erlebnisexperience
- 3,791breitesbroad, wide (neuter)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,787
- The most common German nouns#1,627
- German A1 vocabulary#704
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#528
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.