German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Auswahl
Meaning in English: selection, choice
Example
Das Café hat eine große Auswahl an Kuchen.
The café has a large selection of cakes.
Der, die or das?
Auswahl is feminine: die Auswahl. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Auswahl?
Auswahl is number 858 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 103 times per million words — about once every 9,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Auswahl is built from die Wahl (choice; election).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 854arbeitetworks
- 855das Krankenhaushospital
- 856der Artikelarticle
- 857genommentaken
- 858die Auswahlselection, choice
- 859entsprechendencorresponding, relevant
- 860erfolgentake place, be carried out
- 861altold
- 862verlassenleave
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#858
- The 5,000 most common German words#858
- The most common German nouns#284
- German B1 vocabulary#221
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#95
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