das Erlebnis
Meaning in English: experience
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Die Fahrt im Heißluftballon war ein tolles Erlebnis.
The hot-air balloon ride was a great experience.
Der, die or das?
Erlebnis is neuter: das Erlebnis. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -nis are das in 7 of 8 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Erlebnis?
Erlebnis is number 3,790 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 45,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,786der DienstagabendTuesday evening
- 3,787die Nasenose
- 3,788Kommentarecomments
- 3,789beeinflusstinfluenced, affects
- 3,790das Erlebnisexperience
- 3,791breitesbroad, wide (neuter)
- 3,792ansehento look at, to watch
- 3,793die Fähigkeitability, skill
- 3,794Eventsevents
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,790
- The most common German nouns#1,629
- German B1 vocabulary#1,217
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#198
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.