German noun, feminine · CEFR B1

die Einstellung

Meaning in English: attitude; setting; hiring

Rank 2,839 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B12 forms in the list
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Example

Mit dieser Einstellung wirst du nichts erreichen.

With that attitude you won't get anywhere.

Der, die or das?

Einstellung is feminine: die Einstellung. 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 Einstellung in the top 5,000

These forms of Einstellung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Einstellungen#2,506
settings; attitudesB1

Das kannst du in den Einstellungen ändern.
You can change that in the settings.

How common is Einstellung?

Einstellung is number 2,839 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 31 times per million words — about once every 32,000 words. Its most frequent form is Einstellungen (#2,506).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Related words in the list

Einstellung is built from die Stellung (position, stance).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,835das Fahrradbicycle
  2. 2,836Smartphonessmartphones
  3. 2,837der Bruderbrother
  4. 2,838das Gewichtweight
  5. 2,839die Einstellungattitude; setting; hiring
  6. 2,840die Dokumentationdocumentary; documentation
  7. 2,841geschiehthappens
  8. 2,842Positionenpositions
  9. 2,843die Kompetenzcompetence, expertise

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