die Genehmigung
Meaning in English: permission, permit
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Dafür brauchen Sie eine Genehmigung der Stadt.
You need a permit from the city for that.
Der, die or das?
Genehmigung is feminine: die Genehmigung. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ung are die in 224 of 226 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Genehmigung?
Genehmigung is number 2,655 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 34 times per million words — about once every 30,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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
- 2,651kontinuierlichcontinuous, steadily
- 2,652der Versuchattempt, try; experiment
- 2,653fortaway, gone; onward
- 2,654bestätigenconfirm
- 2,655die Genehmigungpermission, permit
- 2,656der Bordboard (an Bord = on board)
- 2,657die Mieterent
- 2,658die Sprecherinspokeswoman, speaker (female)
- 2,659die Messetrade fair; mass (church)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,655
- The most common German nouns#1,112
- German B2 vocabulary#498
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#363
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.