German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Erdbeben
Meaning in English: earthquake
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Das Erdbeben war noch in der Nachbarstadt zu spüren.
The earthquake could be felt even in the next town.
Der, die or das?
Erdbeben is neuter: das Erdbeben. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Erdbeben?
Erdbeben is number 4,621 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 58,000 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
- 4,617das Berufslebenworking life, career
- 4,618DänemarkDenmark
- 4,619die Kassetill, checkout; health insurer
- 4,620anwesendenpresent (in attendance)
- 4,621das Erdbebenearthquake
- 4,622kündigtquits, gives notice; cancels
- 4,623der Schlagblow, hit; shock
- 4,624scheinbarapparently, seemingly
- 4,625gefülltfilled, stuffed
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- The most common German nouns#2,020
- German B1 vocabulary#1,503
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#243
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