German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Abwehr
Meaning in English: defence
Example
Die Abwehr hat heute keinen Fehler gemacht.
The defence didn't make a single mistake today.
Der, die or das?
Abwehr is feminine: die Abwehr. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Abwehr?
Abwehr is number 4,444 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.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,440bedecktcovered, overcast
- 4,441rücktmoves, shifts
- 4,442der Mitarbeitendeemployees, staff (gender-neutral)
- 4,443wertento rate, to assess, to interpret
- 4,444die Abwehrdefence
- 4,445schätztestimates; values, appreciates
- 4,446zustandeabout (zustande kommen: come about)
- 4,447ganzeswhole, entire
- 4,448gesundheitlichehealth, health-related
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- The 5,000 most common German words#4,444
- The most common German nouns#1,935
- German B2 vocabulary#1,068
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#630
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