die Gelegenheit
Meaning in English: opportunity, occasion
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Bei Gelegenheit rufe ich dich an.
I'll call you when I get the chance.
Der, die or das?
Gelegenheit is feminine: die Gelegenheit. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -heit are die in 11 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gelegenheit?
Gelegenheit is number 1,521 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 61 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,517der Bewohnerresident(s), inhabitant(s)
- 1,518Vorgabenrequirements, guidelines
- 1,519DeutschGerman (language)
- 1,520passtfits, suits, is fine
- 1,521die Gelegenheitopportunity, occasion
- 1,522der Geschäftsführermanaging director, CEO
- 1,523die Landesregierungstate government
- 1,524erhöhento raise, to increase
- 1,525schriebwrote
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,521
- The most common German nouns#586
- German B1 vocabulary#467
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#201
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.