die Ankündigung
Meaning in English: announcement
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Die Ankündigung kam für alle völlig überraschend.
The announcement came as a complete surprise to everyone.
Der, die or das?
Ankündigung is feminine: die Ankündigung. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ung are die in 224 of 226 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Ankündigung?
Ankündigung is number 3,489 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 41,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,485die Vereinigungassociation, union; unification
- 3,486Jobsjobs
- 3,487endgültigfinal, definitive; for good
- 3,488schwarzeblack
- 3,489die Ankündigungannouncement
- 3,490die Erziehungupbringing, education
- 3,491vergleichsweisecomparatively, relatively
- 3,492das Staatsministeriumstate ministry
- 3,493der Senatsenate
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,489
- The most common German nouns#1,481
- German B2 vocabulary#753
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#486
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.