die Entfernung
Meaning in English: distance; removal
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Aus der Entfernung sah das Haus kleiner aus.
From a distance the house looked smaller.
Der, die or das?
Entfernung is feminine: die Entfernung. 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.
How common is Entfernung?
Entfernung is number 4,826 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 61,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,822die Errichtungconstruction, establishment
- 4,823weiterführendefurther, secondary (school)
- 4,824landetlands
- 4,825das Chaoschaos
- 4,826die Entfernungdistance; removal
- 4,827wahrentrue, real
- 4,828langjährigenlong-standing, of many years
- 4,829die Übermittlungtransmission, sending
- 4,830sinktsinks, falls, drops
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,826
- The most common German nouns#2,119
- German B1 vocabulary#1,567
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#689
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.