die Abhängigkeit
Meaning in English: dependence, addiction
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Die Abhängigkeit vom Handy ist ein echtes Problem.
Phone addiction is a real problem.
Der, die or das?
Abhängigkeit is feminine: die Abhängigkeit. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -keit are die in 15 of 15 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Abhängigkeit?
Abhängigkeit is number 4,437 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 55,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
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In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,437
- The most common German nouns#1,932
- German B2 vocabulary#1,064
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#629
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.