die Öffnung
Meaning in English: opening
Example
Durch eine kleine Öffnung im Zaun kam die Katze herein.
The cat got in through a small gap in the fence.
Der, die or das?
Öffnung is feminine: die Öffnung. 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.
How common is Öffnung?
Öffnung is number 4,612 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 57,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Öffnung:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,608kennenzulernento get to know, to meet (zu-inf.)
- 4,609eigenständigindependent, on one's own
- 4,610öffentlicherpublic
- 4,611zugunstenin favour of, for the benefit of
- 4,612die Öffnungopening
- 4,613hoffentlichhopefully
- 4,614Clubsclubs
- 4,615körperlichenphysical
- 4,616der Schattenshade, shadow
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- The most common German nouns#2,014
- German B1 vocabulary#1,500
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#659
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.