die Stunde
Meaning in English: hour, lesson
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Der Zug hat eine Stunde Verspätung.
The train is an hour late.
Der, die or das?
Stunde is feminine: die Stunde. 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 Stunde in the top 5,000
These forms of Stunde are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Wir haben zwei Stunden im Stau gestanden.
We were stuck in traffic for two hours.
How common is Stunde?
Stunde is number 1,092 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 83 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words. Its most frequent form is Stunden (#452).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% 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
- 1,088stattfindento take place
- 1,089profitierento benefit, to profit
- 1,090der Bodenfloor, ground, soil
- 1,091erwartento expect, to wait for
- 1,092die Stundehour, lesson
- 1,093automatischautomatic(ally)
- 1,094sodassso that
- 1,095startetstarts, launches
- 1,096begleitetaccompanied
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,092
- The most common German nouns#384
- German A1 vocabulary#375
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#132
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.