German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Suche
Meaning in English: search
Example
Wir sind auf der Suche nach einer Wohnung.
We're looking for a flat.
Der, die or das?
Suche is feminine: die Suche. 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 Suche?
Suche is number 742 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 121 times per million words — about once every 8,300 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% 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
- 738der Landkreisdistrict, county
- 739Bilderpictures
- 740erklärteexplained, declared
- 741mehrerenseveral (dative)
- 742die Suchesearch
- 743ÖsterreichAustria
- 744drittenthird
- 745der Betriebcompany, business; operation
- 746der Beitragcontribution; fee; post
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#742
- The 5,000 most common German words#742
- The most common German nouns#228
- German B1 vocabulary#183
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#73
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