die Wolke
Meaning in English: cloud
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Weather in German list.
Example
Am Himmel ist keine einzige Wolke.
There isn't a single cloud in the sky.
Der, die or das?
Wolke is feminine: die Wolke. 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 Wolke?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Wolke appears 2.5 times per million words — about once every 400,000 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.