German noun, feminine · CEFR A1

die Straße

Meaning in English: street, road

Rank 419 of 5,000noun · dieLevel A12 forms in the list
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Example

Pass auf, wenn du über die Straße gehst!

Be careful when you cross the road!

Der, die or das?

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

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

Straßen#1,379
streets, roadsA1

Nach dem Schnee waren die Straßen glatt.
After the snow the roads were slippery.

How common is Straße?

Straße is number 419 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 209 times per million words — about once every 4,800 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 415der Anfangbeginning, start
  2. 416festfirm, solid, fixed
  3. 417meinemy
  4. 418klarclear; sure, of course
  5. 419die Straßestreet, road
  6. 420der Grundreason; ground
  7. 421jeweilseach, in each case
  8. 422führento lead; to run (a business)
  9. 423jungeyoung

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