German noun, feminine · CEFR C1

die Entstehung

Meaning in English: origin, formation, emergence

Rank 4,412 of 5,000noun · dieLevel C1
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Example

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

  1. 4,408oberstetop, highest, supreme
  2. 4,409der JännerJanuary (Austrian)
  3. 4,410stattgefundentaken place
  4. 4,411die Verteidigungdefence
  5. 4,412die Entstehungorigin, formation, emergence
  6. 4,413jährlicheannual, yearly
  7. 4,414die Ferienholidays, vacation
  8. 4,415schlichtsimple, plain; simply
  9. 4,416damaligethen, of that time

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