der Ablauf
Meaning in English: procedure, course (of events)
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Test my vocabularyExample
Können Sie mir den Ablauf kurz erklären?
Could you briefly explain the procedure to me?
Der, die or das?
Ablauf is masculine: der Ablauf. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Ablauf in the top 5,000
These forms of Ablauf are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Neue Kollegen müssen erst die Abläufe kennenlernen.
New colleagues first have to learn the procedures.
How common is Ablauf?
Ablauf is number 1,630 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 57 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,626aufsonto the, to the (auf das)
- 1,627der Urlaubholiday, vacation
- 1,628begleitento accompany
- 1,629unklarunclear
- 1,630der Ablaufprocedure, course (of events)
- 1,631die Finanzierungfinancing, funding
- 1,632der Vorstandboard (of directors), committee
- 1,633schafftmanages, creates
- 1,634die Ligaleague
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,630
- The most common German nouns#633
- German B2 vocabulary#235
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#174
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.