die Erklärung
Meaning in English: explanation, statement
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Dafür gibt es eine einfache Erklärung.
There's a simple explanation for that.
Der, die or das?
Erklärung is feminine: die Erklärung. 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 Erklärung?
Erklärung is number 1,672 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 55 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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 Erklärung:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,668der Planplan, map
- 1,669rechtenright; right-wing
- 1,670erinnertreminds, remembered
- 1,671ziemlichquite, fairly, rather
- 1,672die Erklärungexplanation, statement
- 1,673verzichtento do without, to give up
- 1,674diskutiertdiscussed
- 1,675Fallecase (im Falle: in case of); trap
- 1,676die Klinikclinic, hospital
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,672
- The most common German nouns#657
- German B1 vocabulary#524
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#227
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.