German noun, feminine · CEFR B1

die Ausnahme

Meaning in English: exception

Rank 2,414 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B12 forms in the list
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Example

Heute machen wir mal eine Ausnahme.

Today we'll make an exception.

Der, die or das?

Ausnahme is feminine: die Ausnahme. 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 Ausnahme in the top 5,000

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

Ausnahmen#3,165
exceptionsB1

Für Kinder gibt es Ausnahmen von dieser Regel.
There are exceptions to this rule for children.

How common is Ausnahme?

Ausnahme is number 2,414 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 37 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,410stammtcomes from, originates
  2. 2,411beschreibtdescribes
  3. 2,412Projektsof the project (genitive)
  4. 2,413die Aussagestatement; testimony
  5. 2,414die Ausnahmeexception
  6. 2,415irgendwannsometime, at some point
  7. 2,416gesetzlichestatutory, legal (inflected)
  8. 2,417Wortenwords (dative plural)
  9. 2,418getragencarried, worn

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