German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Seele
Meaning in English: soul
Example
Musik ist Balsam für die Seele.
Music is balm for the soul.
Der, die or das?
Seele is feminine: die Seele. 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 Seele?
Seele is number 4,187 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 51,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,183die Berechnungcalculation
- 4,184Auszubildendetrainees, apprentices
- 4,185die Arbeitsweltworld of work
- 4,186Leutenpeople (dative)
- 4,187die Seelesoul
- 4,188einverstandenagreed, OK with
- 4,189gezieltetargeted, specific
- 4,190besprechento discuss, to talk over
- 4,191interneinternal
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,187
- The most common German nouns#1,813
- German B2 vocabulary#978
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#580
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.