German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Stärke
Meaning in English: strength; starch
Example
Geduld ist nicht gerade meine Stärke.
Patience isn't exactly my strong point.
Der, die or das?
Stärke is feminine: die Stärke. 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 Stärke?
Stärke is number 3,164 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 27 times per million words — about once every 37,000 words.
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
- 3,160frohglad, happy
- 3,161versuche(I) try
- 3,162verstandenunderstood
- 3,163der Centcent
- 3,164die Stärkestrength; starch
- 3,165Ausnahmenexceptions
- 3,166das Landesamtstate office (authority)
- 3,167abgegebenhanded in, given away, cast
- 3,168hierzulandein this country, here
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,164
- The most common German nouns#1,328
- German B1 vocabulary#1,028
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#441
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.