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German noun, neuter · CEFR A1

das Fernsehen

Meaning in English: television, TV

Rank 2,363 of 5,000noun · dasLevel A1
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Example

Was kommt heute Abend im Fernsehen?

What's on TV tonight?

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Fernsehen is neuter: das Fernsehen. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Fernsehen?

Fernsehen is number 2,363 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 38 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,359Vereinsof the club (genitive)
  2. 2,360legtelaid, put (past)
  3. 2,361der Bahnhof(railway) station
  4. 2,362höchstenhighest (inflected)
  5. 2,363das Fernsehentelevision, TV
  6. 2,364die Vernetzungnetworking, (inter)connection
  7. 2,365löschento delete; to extinguish
  8. 2,366solchersuch (inflected)
  9. 2,367mache(I) make, do

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