die Strecke
Meaning in English: route, distance, line
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Die Strecke nach Hamburg ist gesperrt.
The line to Hamburg is closed.
Der, die or das?
Strecke is feminine: die Strecke. 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 Strecke in the top 5,000
These forms of Strecke are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Kurze Strecken fahre ich mit dem Fahrrad.
I cycle short distances.
How common is Strecke?
Strecke is number 1,746 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 52 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,742der Hinweisnote, hint, tip
- 1,743der Westenwest
- 1,744tutdoes; hurts (tut weh)
- 1,745allgemeinegeneral
- 1,746die Streckeroute, distance, line
- 1,747relativrelatively, fairly
- 1,748regionaleregional, local
- 1,749dauertlasts, takes (time)
- 1,750willkommenwelcome
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,746
- The most common German nouns#694
- German B1 vocabulary#554
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#239
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.