der Tee
Meaning in English: tea
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Food and drink in German list.
Example
Möchtest du lieber Kaffee oder Tee?
Would you prefer coffee or tea?
Der, die or das?
Tee is masculine: der Tee. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -e are usually die (170 of 193 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Tee?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Tee appears 14 times per million words — about once every 72,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.