die Wiese
Meaning in English: meadow, lawn
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Nature in German list.
Example
Wir machen ein Picknick auf der Wiese.
We're having a picnic on the meadow.
Der, die or das?
Wiese is feminine: die Wiese. 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 Wiese?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Wiese appears 14 times per million words — about once every 70,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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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.