die Erziehung
Meaning in English: upbringing, education
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Bei der Erziehung ihrer Kinder sind sie sehr streng.
They are very strict in bringing up their children.
Der, die or das?
Erziehung is feminine: die Erziehung. 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 Erziehung?
Erziehung is number 3,490 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 41,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,486Jobsjobs
- 3,487endgültigfinal, definitive; for good
- 3,488schwarzeblack
- 3,489die Ankündigungannouncement
- 3,490die Erziehungupbringing, education
- 3,491vergleichsweisecomparatively, relatively
- 3,492das Staatsministeriumstate ministry
- 3,493der Senatsenate
- 3,494führendenleading
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,490
- The most common German nouns#1,482
- German B2 vocabulary#754
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#487
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.