die Oberfläche
Meaning in English: surface, interface
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Die Oberfläche des Tisches ist ganz glatt.
The surface of the table is completely smooth.
Der, die or das?
Oberfläche is feminine: die Oberfläche. 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 Oberfläche?
Oberfläche is number 4,361 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 54,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,357die Haftungliability
- 4,358der Weinwine
- 4,359koordiniertcoordinates, coordinated
- 4,360die Streitkräftearmed forces
- 4,361die Oberflächesurface, interface
- 4,362statistischestatistical
- 4,363unverändertunchanged
- 4,364ausländischenforeign
- 4,365der Kommentarcomment, commentary
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,361
- The most common German nouns#1,892
- German B2 vocabulary#1,040
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#615
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.