die Schule
Meaning in English: school
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Die Schule fängt um acht Uhr an.
School starts at eight o'clock.
Der, die or das?
Schule is feminine: die Schule. 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 Schule in the top 5,000
These forms of Schule are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Nach den Ferien öffnen die Schulen wieder.
The schools reopen after the holidays.
How common is Schule?
Schule is number 209 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 403 times per million words — about once every 2,500 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 51% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#209
- The 1,000 most common German words#209
- The 5,000 most common German words#209
- The most common German nouns#22
- German A1 vocabulary#141
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#6
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