die Bewerbung
Meaning in English: application (job)
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Ich habe meine Bewerbung gestern abgeschickt.
I sent off my application yesterday.
Der, die or das?
Bewerbung is feminine: die Bewerbung. 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.
Forms of Bewerbung in the top 5,000
These forms of Bewerbung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Ich habe schon zwanzig Bewerbungen geschrieben.
I've already written twenty applications.
How common is Bewerbung?
Bewerbung is number 1,342 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 68 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,338bauento build
- 1,339Parteienparties (political)
- 1,340Kompetenzenskills, competences
- 1,341maximalat most, maximum
- 1,342die Bewerbungapplication (job)
- 1,343gefragtasked; in demand
- 1,344engnarrow, tight, close
- 1,345der Serviceservice
- 1,346entstandenarisen, created
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,342
- The most common German nouns#492
- German A2 vocabulary#312
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#173
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.