die Schlange
Meaning in English: snake; queue
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
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Vor der Kasse war eine lange Schlange.
There was a long queue at the checkout.
Der, die or das?
Schlange is feminine: die Schlange. 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 Schlange?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Schlange appears 6.8 times per million words — about once every 150,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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