German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Armut
Meaning in English: poverty
Example
Viele Familien leben in Armut.
Many families live in poverty.
Der, die or das?
Armut is feminine: die Armut. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Armut?
Armut is number 3,846 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 46,000 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
- 3,842die Missionmission
- 3,843Fortschritteprogress
- 3,844der Käuferbuyer, purchaser
- 3,845nächstesnext (neuter)
- 3,846die Armutpoverty
- 3,847Trendstrends
- 3,848beweisento prove
- 3,849die Bauarbeitenconstruction work, roadworks
- 3,850üblichenusual, customary
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- The 5,000 most common German words#3,846
- The most common German nouns#1,660
- German B2 vocabulary#857
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#535
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