der Gegensatz
Meaning in English: contrast, opposite
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Im Gegensatz zu mir steht sie gern früh auf.
Unlike me, she likes getting up early.
Der, die or das?
Gegensatz is masculine: der Gegensatz. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gegensatz?
Gegensatz is number 2,297 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 39 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Gegensatz is built from der Satz (sentence, set, rate).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,293bekamgot, received (past)
- 2,294staatlichestate, government (inflected)
- 2,295wesentlichessential; considerably
- 2,296der Bewerberapplicant(s), candidate(s)
- 2,297der Gegensatzcontrast, opposite
- 2,298Anregungensuggestions, ideas, stimulus
- 2,299weisento point, to show; to refer
- 2,300älterenolder, elderly (inflected)
- 2,301überprüfento check, to verify
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,297
- The most common German nouns#950
- German B1 vocabulary#735
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#247
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.