die Funktion
Meaning in English: function, role
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Diese Funktion gibt es nur in der neuen App.
This function is only in the new app.
Der, die or das?
Funktion is feminine: die Funktion. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ion are die in 46 of 47 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Funktion in the top 5,000
These forms of Funktion are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Das neue Handy hat viele praktische Funktionen.
The new phone has lots of handy features.
How common is Funktion?
Funktion is number 1,264 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 72 times per million words — about once every 14,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,260der Kurscourse, class, rate
- 1,261die Antwortanswer, reply
- 1,262gesetzlichenlegal, statutory
- 1,263die Gestaltungdesign, arrangement
- 1,264die Funktionfunction, role
- 1,265genausojust as, exactly the same
- 1,266überalleverywhere
- 1,267dienento serve
- 1,268steigtrises, climbs, gets on
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,264
- The most common German nouns#459
- German B1 vocabulary#374
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#159
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.