das Gegenteil
Meaning in English: opposite, contrary
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Im Gegenteil, ich finde die Idee super.
On the contrary, I think the idea is great.
Der, die or das?
Gegenteil is neuter: das Gegenteil. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gegenteil?
Gegenteil is number 3,084 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 28 times per million words — about once every 36,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Gegenteil is built from der Teil (part, piece).
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,084
- The most common German nouns#1,298
- German B1 vocabulary#999
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#155
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.