German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Stufe
Meaning in English: step; level, stage
Example
Vorsicht, hier ist eine Stufe!
Careful, there's a step here!
Der, die or das?
Stufe is feminine: die Stufe. 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 Stufe?
Stufe is number 3,682 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 44,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,678senkento lower, to reduce
- 3,679Objekteobjects; properties
- 3,680der Zusammenhaltcohesion, solidarity, unity
- 3,681eingeleitetinitiated, launched
- 3,682die Stufestep; level, stage
- 3,683der Antisemitismusantisemitism
- 3,684geringenlow, small, slight
- 3,685hingewiesenpointed out, drawn attention to
- 3,686Erkenntnissenfindings, insights (dative pl.)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,682
- The most common German nouns#1,578
- German B1 vocabulary#1,183
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#516
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