die Entstehung
Meaning in English: origin, formation, emergence
Add die Entstehung to your reviews. Progress stays in this browser.
Test my vocabularyExample
Der Film erzählt die Entstehung der Band.
The film tells how the band came into being.
Der, die or das?
Entstehung is feminine: die Entstehung. 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 Entstehung?
Entstehung is number 4,412 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 54,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,408oberstetop, highest, supreme
- 4,409der JännerJanuary (Austrian)
- 4,410stattgefundentaken place
- 4,411die Verteidigungdefence
- 4,412die Entstehungorigin, formation, emergence
- 4,413jährlicheannual, yearly
- 4,414die Ferienholidays, vacation
- 4,415schlichtsimple, plain; simply
- 4,416damaligethen, of that time
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,412
- The most common German nouns#1,921
- German C1 vocabulary#287
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#626
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.