die Ziege
Meaning in English: goat
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
Example
Die Ziege gibt jeden Tag Milch.
The goat gives milk every day.
Der, die or das?
Ziege is feminine: die Ziege. 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 Ziege?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Ziege appears 1.3 times per million words — about once every 790,000 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.