German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Weise
Meaning in English: way, manner
Example
Auf diese Weise geht es schneller.
It's quicker this way.
Der, die or das?
Weise is feminine: die Weise. 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 Weise?
Weise is number 629 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 142 times per million words — about once every 7,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 60% 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
- 625Namenname (acc./dat.); names
- 626könnecan, could (reported speech)
- 627Studierendenstudents
- 628besonderespecial, particular
- 629die Weiseway, manner
- 630tatsächlichactually, really, indeed
- 631neuernew; newer
- 632erfahrenfind out, learn; experienced
- 633achteight
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#629
- The 5,000 most common German words#629
- The most common German nouns#175
- German B1 vocabulary#144
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#60
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