die Einheit
Meaning in English: unit, unity
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Der Meter ist eine Einheit für Längen.
The metre is a unit of length.
Der, die or das?
Einheit is feminine: die Einheit. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -heit are die in 11 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Einheit in the top 5,000
These forms of Einheit are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Der Kurs besteht aus zwölf Einheiten.
The course consists of twelve units.
How common is Einheit?
Einheit is number 2,984 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 29 times per million words — about once every 34,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,980eventuellpossibly, perhaps
- 2,981die Rentepension, retirement
- 2,982erzielento achieve, to score
- 2,983engercloser, narrower, tighter
- 2,984die Einheitunit, unity
- 2,985entsprechento correspond to, to match
- 2,986Konzerteconcerts
- 2,987der Verlagpublisher, publishing house
- 2,988gewissecertain
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,984
- The most common German nouns#1,265
- German B2 vocabulary#595
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#427
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.