die Station
Meaning in English: station, stop; ward
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Add die Station and its 1 form to your reviews. Progress stays in this browser.
Test my vocabularyExample
Wir müssen an der nächsten Station aussteigen.
We have to get off at the next stop.
Der, die or das?
Station is feminine: die Station. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ion are die in 46 of 47 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Station in the top 5,000
These forms of Station are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Bis zum Bahnhof sind es noch drei Stationen.
It's another three stops to the station.
How common is Station?
Station is number 3,212 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. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,208der Berateradviser, consultant
- 3,209die Sicherungfuse; backup; securing
- 3,210das Fleischmeat
- 3,211das Jubiläumanniversary, jubilee
- 3,212die Stationstation, stop; ward
- 3,213einzigenonly, single (inflected)
- 3,214verzichtetdoes without, gives up
- 3,215Gebieteareas, regions, fields
- 3,216bittetasks, requests
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,212
- The most common German nouns#1,358
- German A2 vocabulary#693
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#450
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.