die Ursache
Meaning in English: cause, reason
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Die Ursache des Feuers ist noch unklar.
The cause of the fire is still unclear.
Der, die or das?
Ursache is feminine: die Ursache. 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 Ursache in the top 5,000
These forms of Ursache are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Ursachen des Brandes sind noch unklar.
The causes of the fire are still unclear.
How common is Ursache?
Ursache is number 2,095 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 44 times per million words — about once every 23,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 2,091ausgestattetequipped, furnished
- 2,092sämtlicheall, entire
- 2,093Anträgeapplications, motions
- 2,094gesternyesterday
- 2,095die Ursachecause, reason
- 2,096die Freiheitfreedom, liberty
- 2,097eureyour (plural informal)
- 2,098praktischpractical, handy; practically
- 2,099Wortewords (connected speech)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,095
- The most common German nouns#853
- German B1 vocabulary#669
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#280
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.