German noun, feminine · CEFR A2

die Gesundheit

Meaning in English: health; bless you!

Rank 658 of 5,000noun · dieLevel A2
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Example

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.

Related words in the list

Words built on Gesundheit:

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 654erfolgreichsuccessful(ly)
  2. 655die Handhand
  3. 656Gästeguests
  4. 657zweitesecond
  5. 658die Gesundheithealth; bless you!
  6. 659bringtbrings
  7. 660Fansfans
  8. 661hältholds; stops; keeps
  9. 662Hausehome (zu Hause, nach Hause)

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