German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Ware
Meaning in English: goods, merchandise
Example
Die Ware kommt morgen im Laden an.
The goods arrive at the shop tomorrow.
Der, die or das?
Ware is feminine: die Ware. 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 Ware?
Ware is number 4,264 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,260aktiviertactivated
- 4,261einkaufento shop, to go shopping
- 4,262die Verfassungconstitution, condition
- 4,263vermiedenavoided
- 4,264die Waregoods, merchandise
- 4,265die Wandwall
- 4,266aufzubauento build up, to set up (zu-inf.)
- 4,267unglaublichunbelievable, incredible
- 4,268erlittsuffered
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,264
- The most common German nouns#1,851
- German B1 vocabulary#1,387
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#596
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