die Gesundheit
Meaning in English: health; bless you!
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Rauchen schadet der Gesundheit.
Smoking damages your health.
Der, die or das?
Gesundheit is feminine: die Gesundheit. 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 Gesundheit?
Gesundheit is number 658 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 136 times per million words — about once every 7,300 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 61% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#658
- The 5,000 most common German words#658
- The most common German nouns#186
- German A2 vocabulary#163
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#65
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