German noun, neuter · CEFR B1

das Geschlecht

Meaning in English: gender, sex

Rank 4,339 of 5,000noun · dasLevel B1
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Example

Bitte geben Sie Ihr Alter und Geschlecht an.

Please state your age and gender.

Der, die or das?

Geschlecht is neuter: das Geschlecht. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Geschlecht?

Geschlecht is number 4,339 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 53,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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. 4,335qualitativqualitative, in quality
  2. 4,336die Ergänzungaddition, supplement
  3. 4,337entlassento dismiss, to discharge, released
  4. 4,338bedientserved, operated
  5. 4,339das Geschlechtgender, sex
  6. 4,340die Akzeptanzacceptance
  7. 4,341durchsetzento enforce, to assert (oneself)
  8. 4,342benanntnamed
  9. 4,343der Lkwtruck, lorry

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