German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Strich
Meaning in English: line, stroke
Example
Unterm Strich hat sich die Reise gelohnt.
All in all, the trip was worth it.
Der, die or das?
Strich is masculine: der Strich. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Strich?
Strich is number 4,380 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 54,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,376enormeenormous, huge
- 4,377die Arenaarena
- 4,378betreffendenconcerned, in question
- 4,379tieferdeeper, lower
- 4,380der Strichline, stroke
- 4,381die Geduldpatience
- 4,382die Fraktionparliamentary group, faction
- 4,383die Ehefrauwife
- 4,384bedingtpartly, to a limited extent; due to
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,380
- The most common German nouns#1,900
- German B1 vocabulary#1,430
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#480
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