German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Gegenwart
Meaning in English: present (time); presence
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Wir sollten mehr in der Gegenwart leben.
We should live more in the present.
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Gegenwart is feminine: die Gegenwart. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gegenwart?
Gegenwart is number 3,637 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,633Migrantenmigrants
- 3,634Tatendeeds, acts
- 3,635Fächernsubjects (dative pl.)
- 3,636übento practise
- 3,637die Gegenwartpresent (time); presence
- 3,638gültigvalid
- 3,639Sanktionensanctions
- 3,640die Formelformula
- 3,641schriftlichenwritten
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