die Oberstufe
Meaning in English: upper school, sixth form
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In der Oberstufe hatte ich Biologie als Leistungskurs.
In sixth form I took biology as an advanced course.
Der, die or das?
Oberstufe is feminine: die Oberstufe. 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 Oberstufe?
Oberstufe is number 4,581 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 57,000 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
- 4,577zweierof two (genitive)
- 4,578Müttermothers
- 4,579verantwortento answer for, to take responsibility
- 4,580zuverlässigreliable
- 4,581die Oberstufeupper school, sixth form
- 4,582die Öffentlichkeitsarbeitpublic relations
- 4,583zusammenarbeitento work together, to cooperate
- 4,584Auflagenconditions, requirements; editions
- 4,585wonachwhat... for, after which
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,581
- The most common German nouns#1,997
- German B2 vocabulary#1,116
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#652
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.