die Sparkasse
Meaning in English: savings bank
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Ich hole schnell Geld bei der Sparkasse.
I'll just get some money from the savings bank.
Der, die or das?
Sparkasse is feminine: die Sparkasse. 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 Sparkasse?
Sparkasse is number 4,020 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 48,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
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- 4,017der Armarm
- 4,018aussiehtlooks (like)
- 4,019die Diskriminierungdiscrimination
- 4,020die Sparkassesavings bank
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- 4,023Mannesman, husband (genitive)
- 4,024verstorbenendeceased, late
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,020
- The most common German nouns#1,737
- German B1 vocabulary#1,295
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#561
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.