die Ukraine
Meaning in English: Ukraine
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Meine Nachbarin kommt aus der Ukraine.
My neighbour is from Ukraine.
Der, die or das?
Ukraine is feminine: die Ukraine. 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 Ukraine?
Ukraine is number 379 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 230 times per million words — about once every 4,300 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 56% 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
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#379
- The 1,000 most common German words#379
- The 5,000 most common German words#379
- The most common German nouns#72
- German B1 vocabulary#61
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#21
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.