die Beschwerde
Meaning in English: complaint
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Ich möchte eine Beschwerde einreichen.
I'd like to make a complaint.
Der, die or das?
Beschwerde is feminine: die Beschwerde. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Beschwerde in the top 5,000
These forms of Beschwerde are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Haben Sie noch Beschwerden im Rücken?
Do you still have pain in your back?
How common is Beschwerde?
Beschwerde is number 4,952 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 63,000 words. Its most frequent form is Beschwerden (#2,610).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 79% 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
- 4,948die Tagesordnungagenda
- 4,949arbeitework (1st person)
- 4,950stiegenrose, climbed (past plural)
- 4,951trennento separate; to split up
- 4,952die Beschwerdecomplaint
- 4,953Kreisescircle, district (genitive)
- 4,954unabhängigenindependent
- 4,955die Vertretungsubstitute, representation
- 4,956einstimmigunanimous(ly)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,952
- The most common German nouns#2,177
- German B1 vocabulary#1,600
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#703
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.