die Gesellschaft
Meaning in English: society; company
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Alte Menschen sind wichtig für unsere Gesellschaft.
Old people are important to our society.
Der, die or das?
Gesellschaft is feminine: die Gesellschaft. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -schaft are die in 19 of 19 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gesellschaft?
Gesellschaft is number 434 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 201 times per million words — about once every 5,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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- The 500 most common German words#434
- The 1,000 most common German words#434
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- The most common German nouns#90
- German B1 vocabulary#74
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#28
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.