die Energiewende
Meaning in English: energy transition (to renewables)
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Die Energiewende kostet am Anfang viel Geld.
The energy transition costs a lot of money at first.
Der, die or das?
Energiewende is feminine: die Energiewende. 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.
How common is Energiewende?
Energiewende is number 3,426 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 40,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Energiewende is built from die Energie (energy) + die Wende (turn, turning point; reunification).
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In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,426
- The most common German nouns#1,451
- German B2 vocabulary#731
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#473
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