die Bevölkerung
Meaning in English: population
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Die Bevölkerung der Stadt wächst schnell.
The city's population is growing fast.
Der, die or das?
Bevölkerung is feminine: die Bevölkerung. 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 Bevölkerung?
Bevölkerung is number 789 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 113 times per million words — about once every 8,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
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In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#789
- The 5,000 most common German words#789
- The most common German nouns#252
- German B2 vocabulary#72
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#82
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.