German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Anlass
Meaning in English: occasion, reason, cause
Example
Zu welchem Anlass trägst du das Kleid?
What occasion are you wearing the dress for?
Der, die or das?
Anlass is masculine: der Anlass. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Anlass?
Anlass is number 1,957 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 47 times per million words — about once every 21,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 1,953Räumerooms, spaces
- 1,954der Osteneast
- 1,955verändernto change, to alter
- 1,956erweitertextended, expanded
- 1,957der Anlassoccasion, reason, cause
- 1,958der Landtagstate parliament
- 1,959rückento move, to shift
- 1,960zweimaltwice
- 1,961der Verbandassociation, federation, bandage
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,957
- The most common German nouns#778
- German B1 vocabulary#619
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#208
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