German noun, masculine · CEFR B2

der Ausgleich

Meaning in English: balance, compensation; equaliser

Rank 2,808 of 5,000noun · derLevel B2

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Example

Sport ist für mich ein guter Ausgleich zur Arbeit.
For me sport is a good balance to work.

Der, die or das?

Ausgleich is masculine: der Ausgleich. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Ausgleich?

Ausgleich is number 2,808 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 32 times per million words — about once every 32,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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

2,804die Erfüllungfulfilment
2,805rechnetcalculates; expects (mit)
2,806die Verpflichtungobligation, commitment
2,807verbringenspend (time)
2,808der Ausgleichbalance, compensation; equaliser
2,809Servicesservices
2,810tratstepped, kicked (past)
2,811das Profilprofile
2,812womöglichpossibly, perhaps

In these word lists

The 5,000 most common German words#2,808
The most common German nouns#1,178
German B2 vocabulary#544
The most common German masculine nouns (der)#307

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