German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Rede
Meaning in English: speech, talk
Example
Der Trauzeuge hielt eine lustige Rede.
The best man gave a funny speech.
Der, die or das?
Rede is feminine: die Rede. 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 Rede?
Rede is number 1,398 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 65 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
- 1,394sobaldas soon as
- 1,395entsprichtcorresponds to, matches
- 1,396verfügthas, possesses
- 1,397ausgezeichnetexcellent; awarded
- 1,398die Redespeech, talk
- 1,399schwereheavy, serious, difficult
- 1,400der Dollardollar
- 1,401der Ausbauexpansion, extension
- 1,402erstelltcreated, drawn up
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,398
- The most common German nouns#520
- German B1 vocabulary#425
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#184
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.