die Ernährung
Meaning in English: diet, nutrition
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Auf eine gesunde Ernährung lege ich viel Wert.
A healthy diet is very important to me.
Der, die or das?
Ernährung is feminine: die Ernährung. 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 Ernährung?
Ernährung is number 1,740 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 53 times per million words — about once every 19,000 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.
Next to it in the frequency list
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- 1,739Strukturenstructures
- 1,740die Ernährungdiet, nutrition
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- 1,743der Westenwest
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In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,740
- The most common German nouns#690
- German B1 vocabulary#551
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#238
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.