German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Ruhe
Meaning in English: quiet, peace, rest
Example
Lass mich bitte in Ruhe!
Please leave me alone!
Der, die or das?
Ruhe is feminine: die Ruhe. 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 Ruhe?
Ruhe is number 1,942 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 47 times per million words — about once every 21,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Words built on Ruhe:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,938Untersuchungenexaminations, investigations
- 1,939zugänglichaccessible
- 1,940auftretento occur; to perform
- 1,941der Nachmittagafternoon
- 1,942die Ruhequiet, peace, rest
- 1,943gewannwon
- 1,944wissenschaftlichescientific, academic
- 1,945der Forscherresearcher(s), scientist(s)
- 1,946gedachtthought, intended (past participle)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,942
- The most common German nouns#771
- German A2 vocabulary#456
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#258
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