German noun, feminine · CEFR B2

die Auflage

Meaning in English: edition, condition, requirement

Rank 3,916 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B22 forms in the list
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Example

Das Buch erscheint bald in der dritten Auflage.

The book is coming out soon in its third edition.

Der, die or das?

Auflage is feminine: die Auflage. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Auflage in the top 5,000

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

Auflagen#4,584
conditions, requirements; editionsC1

Das Restaurant muss strenge Auflagen erfüllen.
The restaurant has to meet strict requirements.

How common is Auflage?

Auflage is number 3,916 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 47,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

Related words in the list

Auflage is built from die Lage (situation; location).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,912die Einreiseentry (into a country)
  2. 3,913entscheidendendecisive, crucial
  3. 3,914der Reifentyre
  4. 3,915das Dokumentdocument
  5. 3,916die Auflageedition, condition, requirement
  6. 3,917leitento lead, to manage
  7. 3,918die Spielzeitseason, playing time
  8. 3,919kündigento quit, to cancel, to give notice
  9. 3,920allzuall too, too

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