German noun, feminine · CEFR A2

die Freundschaft

Meaning in English: friendship

Rank 4,667 of 5,000noun · dieLevel A2
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Example

Unsere Freundschaft hält schon seit der Schulzeit.

Our friendship has lasted since our school days.

Der, die or das?

Freundschaft is feminine: die Freundschaft. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -schaft are die in 19 of 19 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Freundschaft?

Freundschaft is number 4,667 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 58,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Next to it in the frequency list

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  5. 4,667die Freundschaftfriendship
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