die Chance
Meaning in English: chance, opportunity
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Gib ihm doch noch eine Chance.
Why not give him another chance?
Der, die or das?
Chance is feminine: die Chance. 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 Chance in the top 5,000
These forms of Chance are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Mit guten Noten hast du bessere Chancen.
With good marks you have better chances.
How common is Chance?
Chance is number 763 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 118 times per million words — about once every 8,500 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% 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
- 759gestaltendesign, shape, arrange
- 760nächstenext, nearest
- 761esseneat
- 762befindetis (located)
- 763die Chancechance, opportunity
- 764die Bundesregierungfederal government
- 765deineyour (informal)
- 766seineshis, its (genitive)
- 767informiertinformed; informs
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#763
- The 5,000 most common German words#763
- The most common German nouns#239
- German B1 vocabulary#187
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#75
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.