German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Aufwand
Meaning in English: effort, expense
Example
Der Aufwand lohnt sich auf jeden Fall.
The effort is definitely worth it.
Der, die or das?
Aufwand is masculine: der Aufwand. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Aufwand?
Aufwand is number 2,374 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 38 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Aufwand is built from die Wand (wall).
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,374
- The most common German nouns#988
- German B2 vocabulary#419
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#259
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