German noun, masculine · CEFR C1

der Ansatz

Meaning in English: approach; beginning

Rank 2,275 of 5,000noun · derLevel C12 forms in the list
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Example

Das ist ein interessanter Ansatz für das Problem.

That's an interesting approach to the problem.

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Ansatz is masculine: der Ansatz. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Ansatz in the top 5,000

These forms of Ansatz are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Ansätze#3,288
approachesC1

Es gibt verschiedene Ansätze, das Problem zu lösen.
There are different approaches to solving the problem.

How common is Ansatz?

Ansatz is number 2,275 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,271getötetkilled
  2. 2,272überraschendsurprising, unexpectedly
  3. 2,273vielerof many (genitive)
  4. 2,274Einblickeinsights, glimpses
  5. 2,275der Ansatzapproach; beginning
  6. 2,276gehabthad (past participle)
  7. 2,277warntwarns
  8. 2,278die Kitadaycare, nursery (Kindertagesstätte)
  9. 2,279ergibtresults in, yields; makes (sense)

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