die Aktion
Meaning in English: campaign, action; special offer
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Diese Woche gibt es eine Aktion: zwei für eins.
This week there's a special offer: two for one.
Der, die or das?
Aktion is feminine: die Aktion. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ion are die in 46 of 47 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Aktion in the top 5,000
These forms of Aktion are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Der Supermarkt hat diese Woche viele Aktionen.
The supermarket has lots of special offers this week.
How common is Aktion?
Aktion is number 967 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 92 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% 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
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#967
- The 5,000 most common German words#967
- The most common German nouns#335
- German B1 vocabulary#261
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#120
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.