die Offensive
Meaning in English: offensive, attack
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In der Offensive war die Mannschaft heute stark.
The team was strong in attack today.
Der, die or das?
Offensive is feminine: die Offensive. 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 Offensive?
Offensive is number 3,980 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 48,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 3,976lasselet, leave (I)
- 3,977der Widerspruchcontradiction, objection, appeal
- 3,978formuliertworded, formulated
- 3,979das Radbike, wheel
- 3,980die Offensiveoffensive, attack
- 3,981dichtdense, thick, tight
- 3,982Krankenhäusernhospitals (dative)
- 3,983Ausstellungenexhibitions
- 3,984freierfree, freelance; freer
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,980
- The most common German nouns#1,718
- German B2 vocabulary#901
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#551
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.