die Absage
Meaning in English: refusal, cancellation
Example
Nach dem Vorstellungsgespräch kam leider eine Absage.
Unfortunately a rejection came after the interview.
Der, die or das?
Absage is feminine: die Absage. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Absage?
Absage is number 5,000 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 64,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 79% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,996bekamengot, received (past plural)
- 4,997Persönlichkeitenpersonalities, figures
- 4,998der Sexsex
- 4,999deutlicherclearer, more clearly
- 5,000die Absagerefusal, cancellation
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.