German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Sorge
Meaning in English: worry, concern, care
Example
Mach dir keine Sorge, alles wird gut.
Don't worry, everything will be fine.
Der, die or das?
Sorge is feminine: die Sorge. 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 Sorge?
Sorge is number 1,994 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 46 times per million words — about once every 22,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 1,990das Produktproduct
- 1,991Kindesof the child (genitive)
- 1,992sorgtecaused, took care (past)
- 1,993speziellespecial, specific (inflected)
- 1,994die Sorgeworry, concern, care
- 1,995der Zugriffaccess
- 1,996gezogenpulled, moved (past participle)
- 1,997verfolgtfollowed, pursued, persecuted
- 1,998Prozesseprocesses, trials
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,994
- The most common German nouns#797
- German B1 vocabulary#635
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#264
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.