die Pause
Meaning in English: break, pause
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Lass uns kurz eine Pause machen.
Let's take a short break.
Der, die or das?
Pause is feminine: die Pause. 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 Pause?
Pause is number 1,557 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 59 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,553freiefree, vacant
- 1,554freutpleases, is glad (sich freuen)
- 1,555die Größesize, height
- 1,556der Inhaltcontent(s)
- 1,557die Pausebreak, pause
- 1,558Gesprächeconversations, talks
- 1,559glaubento believe, to think
- 1,560der Browser(web) browser
- 1,561kenntknows (is familiar with)
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- German A1 vocabulary#458
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#206
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.