die Rolle
Meaning in English: role, part; roll
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Das Geld spielt keine Rolle.
Money doesn't matter.
Der, die or das?
Rolle is feminine: die Rolle. 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 Rolle in the top 5,000
These forms of Rolle are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Im Theaterstück spielt er zwei Rollen.
He plays two parts in the play.
How common is Rolle?
Rolle is number 413 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 213 times per million words — about once every 4,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% 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
- 409ihresher, their (genitive)
- 410Tagedays
- 411der MärzMarch
- 412die Geschichtehistory; story
- 413die Rollerole, part; roll
- 414erfolgttakes place, is carried out
- 415der Anfangbeginning, start
- 416festfirm, solid, fixed
- 417meinemy
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#413
- The 1,000 most common German words#413
- The 5,000 most common German words#413
- The most common German nouns#83
- German B1 vocabulary#70
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#26
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.