die Beschäftigung
Meaning in English: employment, occupation, activity
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Für Rentner ist der Garten eine schöne Beschäftigung.
For pensioners the garden is a nice thing to do.
Der, die or das?
Beschäftigung is feminine: die Beschäftigung. 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 Beschäftigung?
Beschäftigung is number 3,058 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. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,054das Eisice cream, ice
- 3,055die Berufungappeal; vocation; appointment
- 3,056der Songsong
- 3,057schlechtebad, poor
- 3,058die Beschäftigungemployment, occupation, activity
- 3,059die Partnerschaftpartnership, relationship
- 3,060das Passwortpassword
- 3,061das Prinzipprinciple
- 3,062sterbento die
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,058
- The most common German nouns#1,289
- German B2 vocabulary#620
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#435
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.