German noun, masculine · CEFR B2

der Übergang

Meaning in English: transition; crossing

Rank 3,443 of 5,000noun · derLevel B2
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Example

Der Übergang von der Schule zum Beruf ist oft schwer.

The transition from school to work is often hard.

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Übergang is masculine: der Übergang. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Übergang?

Übergang is number 3,443 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 41,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

Related words in the list

Übergang is built from der Gang (corridor, gear, course (meal)).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,439aktualisiertupdated
  2. 3,440keinerleino … whatsoever, no … at all
  3. 3,441zentralcentral(ly)
  4. 3,442zumalespecially since, all the more so as
  5. 3,443der Übergangtransition; crossing
  6. 3,444geimpftvaccinated
  7. 3,445natürlichennatural
  8. 3,446drohento threaten, to loom
  9. 3,447das Klinikumhospital, clinic (complex)

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