German noun, feminine · CEFR B1

die Beschreibung

Meaning in English: description

Rank 3,863 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B1
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Example

Die Beschreibung passt genau zu dem Mann.

The description fits the man exactly.

Der, die or das?

Beschreibung is feminine: die Beschreibung. 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 Beschreibung?

Beschreibung is number 3,863 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 46,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,859das Babybaby
  2. 3,860motiviertmotivated
  3. 3,861grüngreen
  4. 3,862Krisencrises
  5. 3,863die Beschreibungdescription
  6. 3,864die Religionreligion
  7. 3,865Probenrehearsals, samples, tests
  8. 3,866landento land
  9. 3,867analysierento analyse

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