die Entscheidung
Meaning in English: decision
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Das war eine schwere Entscheidung für uns.
That was a hard decision for us.
Der, die or das?
Entscheidung is feminine: die Entscheidung. 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 Entscheidung in the top 5,000
These forms of Entscheidung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Schwierige Entscheidungen treffe ich nicht gern allein.
I don't like making difficult decisions alone.
How common is Entscheidung?
Entscheidung is number 520 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 174 times per million words — about once every 5,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 59% 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
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#520
- The 5,000 most common German words#520
- The most common German nouns#127
- German B1 vocabulary#99
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#41
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.