die Erhöhung
Meaning in English: increase, raise
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Wir fordern eine Erhöhung der Löhne.
We are demanding a pay rise.
Der, die or das?
Erhöhung is feminine: die Erhöhung. 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 Erhöhung?
Erhöhung is number 2,452 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 37 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,448erweiternexpand, extend
- 2,449die Einhaltungcompliance, observance
- 2,450echtereal, genuine
- 2,451andererseitson the other hand
- 2,452die Erhöhungincrease, raise
- 2,453erinnernremind; remember (sich)
- 2,454befragtensurveyed, questioned
- 2,455viavia, by way of
- 2,456stelltenput, placed; asked (past, plural)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,452
- The most common German nouns#1,020
- German B2 vocabulary#436
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#335
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.