die Erholung
Meaning in English: rest, recovery, relaxation
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Nach dem Stress brauche ich dringend Erholung.
After all that stress I badly need a rest.
Der, die or das?
Erholung is feminine: die Erholung. 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 Erholung?
Erholung is number 4,354 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 53,000 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
- 4,350überlebento survive
- 4,351der Vormittagmorning (before noon)
- 4,352passendsuitable, matching, exact (change)
- 4,353angebotenenoffered
- 4,354die Erholungrest, recovery, relaxation
- 4,355die Schülerinpupil, schoolgirl
- 4,356treibtdrives, pushes; does (sport)
- 4,357die Haftungliability
- 4,358der Weinwine
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,354
- The most common German nouns#1,887
- German B1 vocabulary#1,421
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#612
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.