die Aufklärung
Meaning in English: clarification, education, Enlightenment
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Die Eltern verlangen eine schnelle Aufklärung des Unfalls.
The parents are demanding a quick explanation of the accident.
Der, die or das?
Aufklärung is feminine: die Aufklärung. 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 Aufklärung?
Aufklärung is number 2,970 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 29 times per million words — about once every 34,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,966der Abschnittsection, stage, passage
- 2,967aktivierento activate, to enable
- 2,968benutzento use
- 2,969bedrohtthreatened, endangered
- 2,970die Aufklärungclarification, education, Enlightenment
- 2,971die Bereitstellungprovision, supply
- 2,972starbdied
- 2,973die Kleidungclothes, clothing
- 2,974Beamtecivil servant(s), officer(s)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,970
- The most common German nouns#1,259
- German C1 vocabulary#135
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#423
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.