German noun, feminine · CEFR B2

die Anpassung

Meaning in English: adjustment, adaptation

Rank 3,234 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B2
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Example

Nach dem Umzug war eine Anpassung nötig.

After the move some adjustment was needed.

Der, die or das?

Anpassung is feminine: die Anpassung. 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 Anpassung?

Anpassung is number 3,234 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 26 times per million words — about once every 38,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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

  1. 3,230unverzüglichimmediately, without delay
  2. 3,231hoffe(I) hope
  3. 3,232arbeiteteworked
  4. 3,233wiespointed, showed; rejected
  5. 3,234die Anpassungadjustment, adaptation
  6. 3,235selbensame
  7. 3,236Kategoriencategories
  8. 3,237die Schuldfault, guilt; debt
  9. 3,238die Zahlungpayment

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