die Überraschung
Meaning in English: surprise
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Was für eine schöne Überraschung!
What a lovely surprise!
Der, die or das?
Überraschung is feminine: die Überraschung. 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 Überraschung?
Überraschung is number 3,667 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 44,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,663Streckenroutes, distances, stretches
- 3,664jüngerenyounger
- 3,665der Benutzeruser
- 3,666registrierento register
- 3,667die Überraschungsurprise
- 3,668finanzierento finance, to fund
- 3,669veranstaltetorganised, hosted
- 3,670kümmerttakes care (of), looks after
- 3,671das Glasglass; jar
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,667
- The most common German nouns#1,571
- German A2 vocabulary#777
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#515
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.