German noun, feminine · CEFR B1

die Entwicklung

Meaning in English: development

Rank 269 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B12 forms in the list
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Example

Die Entwicklung der Kinder ist sehr unterschiedlich.

Children develop at very different rates.

Der, die or das?

Entwicklung is feminine: die Entwicklung. 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 Entwicklung in the top 5,000

These forms of Entwicklung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Entwicklungen#1,466
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Die neuen Entwicklungen machen mir Sorgen.
The new developments worry me.

How common is Entwicklung?

Entwicklung is number 269 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 322 times per million words — about once every 3,100 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 53% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Related words in the list

Words built on Entwicklung:

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 265jederevery, each; everyone
  2. 266fünffive
  3. 267Personenpersons, people
  4. 268ebenfallslikewise, also
  5. 269die Entwicklungdevelopment
  6. 270die Möglichkeitpossibility, opportunity
  7. 271fastalmost, nearly
  8. 272zeigtshows
  9. 273die Frauwoman; wife; Mrs

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