die Zunge
Meaning in English: tongue
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Body parts in German list.
Example
Ich habe mir auf die Zunge gebissen.
I bit my tongue.
Der, die or das?
Zunge is feminine: die Zunge. 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 Zunge?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Zunge appears 4.5 times per million words — about once every 220,000 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.