die Quelle
Meaning in English: source, spring
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Wikipedia ist nicht immer eine zuverlässige Quelle.
Wikipedia is not always a reliable source.
Der, die or das?
Quelle is feminine: die Quelle. 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 Quelle in the top 5,000
These forms of Quelle are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Für die Arbeit brauchst du seriöse Quellen.
You need reliable sources for the paper.
How common is Quelle?
Quelle is number 3,835 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 46,000 words. Its most frequent form is Quellen (#3,175).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,831die Gastronomierestaurant trade, catering
- 3,832hineinin, into (away from speaker)
- 3,833AfrikaAfrica
- 3,834der Bildschirmscreen, monitor
- 3,835die Quellesource, spring
- 3,836teilzunehmento take part (zu-infinitive)
- 3,837der Westwest
- 3,838deckento cover, to set (the table)
- 3,839mietento rent
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,835
- The most common German nouns#1,653
- German B1 vocabulary#1,229
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#533
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.