German noun, feminine · CEFR B1

die Rente

Meaning in English: pension, retirement

Rank 2,981 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B1

False friend: Rente is not “rent”. It is a pension. Rent is die Miete. More false friends.

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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

  1. 2,977der Traumdream
  2. 2,978erkanntrecognised, realised
  3. 2,979relevantenrelevant
  4. 2,980eventuellpossibly, perhaps
  5. 2,981die Rentepension, retirement
  6. 2,982erzielento achieve, to score
  7. 2,983engercloser, narrower, tighter
  8. 2,984die Einheitunit, unity
  9. 2,985entsprechento correspond to, to match

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