German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Staffel
Meaning in English: season (TV); relay team
Example
Die neue Staffel der Serie startet im Oktober.
The new season of the series starts in October.
Der, die or das?
Staffel is feminine: die Staffel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Staffel?
Staffel is number 2,287 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,283gebetenasked, requested
- 2,284Angehörigerelatives, family members
- 2,285optimaloptimal, ideal
- 2,286weshalbwhy; which is why
- 2,287die Staffelseason (TV); relay team
- 2,288engagiertcommitted, dedicated; involved
- 2,289die Ordnungorder, tidiness
- 2,290Nachbarnneighbours; neighbour (acc./dat.)
- 2,291Farbencolours; paints
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,287
- The most common German nouns#945
- German B1 vocabulary#732
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#310
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