die Bekämpfung
Meaning in English: fight (against), combating
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Das Geld ist für die Bekämpfung der Armut gedacht.
The money is intended for fighting poverty.
Der, die or das?
Bekämpfung is feminine: die Bekämpfung. 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 Bekämpfung?
Bekämpfung is number 3,717 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 44,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,713künftigenfuture
- 3,714sonstigenother, remaining
- 3,715Hotelshotels
- 3,716orientiertoriented, geared (towards)
- 3,717die Bekämpfungfight (against), combating
- 3,718feststellento find, to notice, to establish
- 3,719der Sportlerathlete, sportsman
- 3,720jüngsteyoungest; latest, most recent
- 3,721Zügetrains; moves; features
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,717
- The most common German nouns#1,595
- German C1 vocabulary#225
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#521
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.