German noun, feminine · CEFR B2

die Bedrohung

Meaning in English: threat

Rank 4,673 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B2
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Example

Für viele Tiere ist die Hitze eine Bedrohung.

For many animals the heat is a threat.

Der, die or das?

Bedrohung is feminine: die Bedrohung. 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 Bedrohung?

Bedrohung is number 4,673 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 58,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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

  1. 4,669früheearly
  2. 4,670BelarusBelarus
  3. 4,671absoluteabsolute
  4. 4,672fälligdue, payable
  5. 4,673die Bedrohungthreat
  6. 4,674attraktivermore attractive; attractive
  7. 4,675wechseltechanged, switched
  8. 4,676heiligenholy, sacred
  9. 4,677Praxenpractices, surgeries

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