die Note
Meaning in English: grade, mark; (musical) note
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Ich habe in Mathe eine gute Note bekommen.
I got a good mark in maths.
Der, die or das?
Note is feminine: die Note. 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 Note?
Note is number 4,141 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 50,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,137umfassento comprise, to include
- 4,138modernermore modern; modern (inflected)
- 4,139Ärztendoctors (dative)
- 4,140Seminareseminars, courses
- 4,141die Notegrade, mark; (musical) note
- 4,142erledigento do, to take care of
- 4,143solchsuch
- 4,144konzipiertdesigned, conceived
- 4,145die Auflösungresolution, dissolution
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,141
- The most common German nouns#1,794
- German A2 vocabulary#855
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#573
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.