German noun, feminine · CEFR B1

die Änderung

Meaning in English: change, alteration

Rank 1,645 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B12 forms in the list
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Example

Gibt es eine Änderung im Fahrplan?

Is there a change to the timetable?

Der, die or das?

Änderung is feminine: die Änderung. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ung are die in 224 of 226 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Änderung in the top 5,000

These forms of Änderung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Änderungen#1,333
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Kurzfristige Änderungen sind leider möglich.
Unfortunately, short-notice changes are possible.

How common is Änderung?

Änderung is number 1,645 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 56 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words. Its most frequent form is Änderungen (#1,333).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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

  1. 1,641medizinischemedical
  2. 1,642das Frühjahrspring
  3. 1,643verfügento have (at one's disposal)
  4. 1,644die Lebensmittelfood, groceries
  5. 1,645die Änderungchange, alteration
  6. 1,646das Fotophoto
  7. 1,647Zeugenwitnesses
  8. 1,648Erwachseneadults
  9. 1,649der Verbraucherconsumer(s)

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