German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Aufstieg
Meaning in English: rise, ascent, promotion
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Der Aufstieg zur Hütte dauert drei Stunden.
The climb up to the hut takes three hours.
Der, die or das?
Aufstieg is masculine: der Aufstieg. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Aufstieg?
Aufstieg is number 3,217 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 27 times per million words — about once every 38,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,213einzigenonly, single (inflected)
- 3,214verzichtetdoes without, gives up
- 3,215Gebieteareas, regions, fields
- 3,216bittetasks, requests
- 3,217der Aufstiegrise, ascent, promotion
- 3,218versprichtpromises
- 3,219Gebäudenbuildings (dative plural)
- 3,220ehrenamtlichvoluntary, as a volunteer
- 3,221die Bundestagswahlfederal election
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- The 5,000 most common German words#3,217
- The most common German nouns#1,360
- German B2 vocabulary#666
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#352
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.