die Generation
Meaning in English: generation
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Die junge Generation kauft viel online.
The young generation buys a lot online.
Der, die or das?
Generation is feminine: die Generation. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ion are die in 46 of 47 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Generation in the top 5,000
These forms of Generation are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Das Rezept gibt es seit Generationen in unserer Familie.
The recipe has been in our family for generations.
How common is Generation?
Generation is number 1,143 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 79 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% 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
- 1,139Regionenregions
- 1,140starkestrong
- 1,141die Freudejoy, pleasure
- 1,142die Softwaresoftware
- 1,143die Generationgeneration
- 1,144Antwortenanswers
- 1,145gewähltelected, chosen, dialled
- 1,146der Fahrerdriver
- 1,147die Firmacompany, firm
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,143
- The most common German nouns#407
- German B1 vocabulary#329
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#142
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.