die Empfehlung
Meaning in English: recommendation
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Hast du eine Empfehlung für ein gutes Restaurant?
Can you recommend a good restaurant?
Der, die or das?
Empfehlung is feminine: die Empfehlung. 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 Empfehlung in the top 5,000
These forms of Empfehlung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Hast du Empfehlungen für gute Restaurants in Wien?
Do you have any recommendations for good restaurants in Vienna?
How common is Empfehlung?
Empfehlung is number 3,632 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words. Its most frequent form is Empfehlungen (#2,225).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,628berechnetcalculated; charged
- 3,629die Meldungreport, news item; notification
- 3,630das Öloil
- 3,631der Mietvertragtenancy agreement, lease
- 3,632die Empfehlungrecommendation
- 3,633Migrantenmigrants
- 3,634Tatendeeds, acts
- 3,635Fächernsubjects (dative pl.)
- 3,636übento practise
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,632
- The most common German nouns#1,554
- German B1 vocabulary#1,169
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#509
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.