die Erweiterung
Meaning in English: extension, expansion
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Die Erweiterung der Schule dauert zwei Jahre.
The extension of the school will take two years.
Der, die or das?
Erweiterung is feminine: die Erweiterung. 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 Erweiterung?
Erweiterung is number 2,931 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 30 times per million words — about once every 33,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,927beliebtpopular
- 2,928barrierefreiaccessible, step-free
- 2,929die Methodemethod
- 2,930gefälltpleases, (I) like
- 2,931die Erweiterungextension, expansion
- 2,932die Veränderungchange
- 2,933kreativecreative
- 2,934berufenappointed, called
- 2,935konzentrierento concentrate, to focus
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,931
- The most common German nouns#1,244
- German B2 vocabulary#582
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#416
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.