die Bereitschaft
Meaning in English: willingness, readiness; on-call duty
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Danke für deine Bereitschaft zu helfen.
Thanks for your willingness to help.
Der, die or das?
Bereitschaft is feminine: die Bereitschaft. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -schaft are die in 19 of 19 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Bereitschaft?
Bereitschaft is number 3,500 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 41,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,496nahnear, close
- 3,497Plattformenplatforms
- 3,498künftigefuture
- 3,499die Baustelleconstruction site, roadworks
- 3,500die Bereitschaftwillingness, readiness; on-call duty
- 3,501der Typtype; guy
- 3,502Kooperationenpartnerships, cooperations
- 3,503das Tablettablet (computer)
- 3,504schlughit, beat; struck
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,500
- The most common German nouns#1,488
- German B2 vocabulary#759
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#490
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.