German noun, feminine · CEFR B1

die Spende

Meaning in English: donation

Rank 3,341 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B12 forms in the list
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Example

Wir freuen uns über jede Spende.

We're grateful for every donation.

Der, die or das?

Spende is feminine: die Spende. 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 Spende in the top 5,000

These forms of Spende are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Spenden#1,679
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Das Tierheim lebt von Spenden.
The animal shelter depends on donations.

How common is Spende?

Spende is number 3,341 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 39,000 words. Its most frequent form is Spenden (#1,679).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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. 3,337der Parkplatzparking space, car park
  2. 3,338nachgewiesenproven, detected
  3. 3,339führtenled, ran
  4. 3,340die Infektioninfection
  5. 3,341die Spendedonation
  6. 3,342Aufnahmenrecordings, photos, shots
  7. 3,343die Kommunemunicipality, local authority
  8. 3,344gewünschtendesired, requested
  9. 3,345das Albumalbum

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