German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Summe
Meaning in English: sum, amount
Example
Für ein Fahrrad ist das eine stolze Summe.
That's a hefty sum for a bike.
Der, die or das?
Summe is feminine: die Summe. 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 Summe?
Summe is number 2,338 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 39 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,334die Kampagnecampaign
- 2,335überwiegendmainly, predominantly
- 2,336der Autorauthor, writer
- 2,337die Adresseaddress
- 2,338die Summesum, amount
- 2,339notwendigenecessary (inflected)
- 2,340erreichbarreachable, accessible
- 2,341der Neubaunew building, new construction
- 2,342cmcm (centimetre/s)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,338
- The most common German nouns#968
- German B1 vocabulary#754
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#317
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.