die Strafe
Meaning in English: punishment, fine, penalty
Example
Für Falschparken zahlt man hier eine hohe Strafe.
You pay a heavy fine for illegal parking here.
Der, die or das?
Strafe is feminine: die Strafe. 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 Strafe?
Strafe is number 3,954 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 47,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,954
- The most common German nouns#1,706
- German B1 vocabulary#1,277
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#547
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.