die Auszeichnung
Meaning in English: award, honour; distinction
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Das Restaurant hat eine Auszeichnung bekommen.
The restaurant has received an award.
Der, die or das?
Auszeichnung is feminine: die Auszeichnung. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ung are die in 224 of 226 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Auszeichnung?
Auszeichnung is number 2,357 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.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,353der Unternehmerentrepreneur(s), business owner(s)
- 2,354manchensome (inflected)
- 2,355der Busbus
- 2,356der Veranstalterorganiser(s), promoter(s)
- 2,357die Auszeichnungaward, honour; distinction
- 2,358Universitätenuniversities
- 2,359Vereinsof the club (genitive)
- 2,360legtelaid, put (past)
- 2,361der Bahnhof(railway) station
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,357
- The most common German nouns#978
- German B2 vocabulary#415
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#319
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.