German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Empfang
Meaning in English: reception, signal
Example
Hier im Keller habe ich keinen Empfang.
I've got no signal down here in the basement.
Der, die or das?
Empfang is masculine: der Empfang. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Empfang?
Empfang is number 4,246 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,242gekennzeichnetmarked, labelled
- 4,243langemlong (dative, as in seit langem)
- 4,244die Distanzdistance
- 4,245eueryour (plural, informal)
- 4,246der Empfangreception, signal
- 4,247der Krebscancer, crab
- 4,248der Ersatzreplacement, substitute
- 4,249die Berufsausbildungvocational training
- 4,250die Spannungsuspense, tension, voltage
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,246
- The most common German nouns#1,842
- German B1 vocabulary#1,380
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#470
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