die Quarantäne
Meaning in English: quarantine
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Nach dem positiven Test musste er in Quarantäne.
After the positive test he had to go into quarantine.
Der, die or das?
Quarantäne is feminine: die Quarantäne. 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 Quarantäne?
Quarantäne is number 4,162 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 50,000 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.
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In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,162
- The most common German nouns#1,799
- German B2 vocabulary#969
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#576
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.