German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Anzahl
Meaning in English: number, quantity
Example
Die Anzahl der Plätze ist leider begrenzt.
Unfortunately the number of places is limited.
Der, die or das?
Anzahl is feminine: die Anzahl. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Anzahl?
Anzahl is number 1,070 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 85 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% 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
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,070
- The most common German nouns#371
- German B1 vocabulary#299
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#129
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