die Begegnung
Meaning in English: encounter, meeting
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Die Begegnung mit ihr hat mein Leben verändert.
Meeting her changed my life.
Der, die or das?
Begegnung is feminine: die Begegnung. 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.
Forms of Begegnung in the top 5,000
These forms of Begegnung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Auf der Reise hatten wir viele schöne Begegnungen.
We had lots of lovely encounters on the trip.
How common is Begegnung?
Begegnung is number 2,693 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 33 times per million words — about once every 30,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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
- 2,689Standardsstandards
- 2,690lagenlay, were (lying) (past, pl.)
- 2,691geltendenapplicable, current (rules)
- 2,692greiftgrabs, reaches; takes effect
- 2,693die Begegnungencounter, meeting
- 2,694die Angabeinformation, detail, statement
- 2,695wahrtrue
- 2,696absolvierencomplete (a course, training)
- 2,697fitfit
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,693
- The most common German nouns#1,129
- German B2 vocabulary#509
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#372
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.