German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Angst
Meaning in English: fear, anxiety
Example
Mein Sohn hat Angst vor Hunden.
My son is afraid of dogs.
Der, die or das?
Angst is feminine: die Angst. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Angst?
Angst is number 1,250 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 73 times per million words — about once every 14,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,250
- The most common German nouns#453
- German A2 vocabulary#296
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#155
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