die Beziehung
Meaning in English: relationship, connection
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Die beiden haben eine sehr enge Beziehung.
The two of them have a very close relationship.
Der, die or das?
Beziehung is feminine: die Beziehung. 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 Beziehung in the top 5,000
These forms of Beziehung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Er hat gute Beziehungen zur Stadtverwaltung.
He has good connections at the town council.
How common is Beziehung?
Beziehung is number 1,967 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 47 times per million words — about once every 21,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,967
- The most common German nouns#781
- German B1 vocabulary#623
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#260
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.