German noun, feminine · CEFR B1

die Phase

Meaning in English: phase, stage

Rank 1,951 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B12 forms in the list

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Example

Das Baby ist gerade in einer schwierigen Phase.

The baby is going through a difficult phase right now.

Der, die or das?

Phase is feminine: die Phase. 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.

Forms of Phase in the top 5,000

These forms of Phase are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Phasen#4,504
phases, stagesB2

Das Projekt läuft in drei Phasen ab.
The project runs in three phases.

How common is Phase?

Phase is number 1,951 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 47 times per million words — about once every 21,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 1,947angepasstadapted, adjusted
  2. 1,948der Nordennorth
  3. 1,949ursprünglichoriginally, original
  4. 1,950der Politikerpolitician(s)
  5. 1,951die Phasephase, stage
  6. 1,952deiner(of) your (informal; gen./dat.)
  7. 1,953Räumerooms, spaces
  8. 1,954der Osteneast
  9. 1,955verändernto change, to alter

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