die Rente
Meaning in English: pension, retirement
False friend: Rente is not “rent”. It is a pension. Rent is die Miete. More false friends.
Example
Meine Mutter geht nächstes Jahr in Rente.
My mother is retiring next year.
Der, die or das?
Rente is feminine: die Rente. 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 Rente?
Rente is number 2,981 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 29 times per million words — about once every 34,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,977der Traumdream
- 2,978erkanntrecognised, realised
- 2,979relevantenrelevant
- 2,980eventuellpossibly, perhaps
- 2,981die Rentepension, retirement
- 2,982erzielento achieve, to score
- 2,983engercloser, narrower, tighter
- 2,984die Einheitunit, unity
- 2,985entsprechento correspond to, to match
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,981
- The most common German nouns#1,264
- German B1 vocabulary#962
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#426
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.