German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Geduld
Meaning in English: patience
Example
Hab ein bisschen Geduld, ich bin gleich fertig.
Be a little patient, I'm almost done.
Der, die or das?
Geduld is feminine: die Geduld. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Geduld?
Geduld is number 4,381 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 54,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,377die Arenaarena
- 4,378betreffendenconcerned, in question
- 4,379tieferdeeper, lower
- 4,380der Strichline, stroke
- 4,381die Geduldpatience
- 4,382die Fraktionparliamentary group, faction
- 4,383die Ehefrauwife
- 4,384bedingtpartly, to a limited extent; due to
- 4,385relevanterelevant
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,381
- The most common German nouns#1,901
- German B1 vocabulary#1,431
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#618
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