das Bündnis
Meaning in English: alliance
Example
Mehrere Vereine haben ein Bündnis gegen Armut gegründet.
Several associations have formed an alliance against poverty.
Der, die or das?
Bündnis is neuter: das Bündnis. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -nis are das in 7 of 8 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Bündnis?
Bündnis is number 3,068 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 28 times per million words — about once every 35,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,064hilfreichhelpful
- 3,065erschienenpublished, appeared
- 3,066OlympischenOlympic
- 3,067hörthears, listens
- 3,068das Bündnisalliance
- 3,069normalnormal, usual
- 3,070der Leserreader(s)
- 3,071hängento hang
- 3,072das Abiturschool-leaving exam (A levels)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,068
- The most common German nouns#1,294
- German C1 vocabulary#141
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#153
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.