die Erkrankung
Meaning in English: illness, disease
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Nach einer langen Erkrankung arbeitet er wieder.
After a long illness he is working again.
Der, die or das?
Erkrankung is feminine: die Erkrankung. 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 Erkrankung in the top 5,000
These forms of Erkrankung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Rauchen kann zu schweren Erkrankungen führen.
Smoking can lead to serious illnesses.
How common is Erkrankung?
Erkrankung is number 2,072 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 44 times per million words — about once every 23,000 words. Its most frequent form is Erkrankungen (#2,025).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 2,068deinenyour (informal; acc./dat.)
- 2,069wirtschaftlicheneconomic (inflected)
- 2,070supergreat, super
- 2,071studierento study (at university)
- 2,072die Erkrankungillness, disease
- 2,073die Therapietherapy, treatment
- 2,074gelangsucceeded, managed (past)
- 2,075der Wandelchange, transformation
- 2,076die Krankheitillness, disease
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,072
- The most common German nouns#839
- German B2 vocabulary#333
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#276
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.