die Fassung
Meaning in English: version, composure, frame
Example
Ich habe den Film in der deutschen Fassung gesehen.
I watched the film in the German version.
Der, die or das?
Fassung is feminine: die Fassung. 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 Fassung?
Fassung is number 3,991 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 48,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 3,987die Diagnosediagnosis
- 3,988erstmalfirst (of all), for now
- 3,989brachtenbrought
- 3,990zugeordnetassigned, allocated
- 3,991die Fassungversion, composure, frame
- 3,992der DonnerstagabendThursday evening
- 3,993Websiteswebsites
- 3,994effektiveffective
- 3,995anstattinstead of
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,991
- The most common German nouns#1,724
- German B2 vocabulary#906
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#555
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.