German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
Erwartungen
Meaning in English: expectations
This is a form of Erwartung, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
Example
Das Hotel hat unsere Erwartungen übertroffen.
The hotel exceeded our expectations.
How common is Erwartungen?
Erwartungen is number 2,529 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 36 times per million words — about once every 28,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
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