die Grundlage
Meaning in English: basis, foundation
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Gute Grammatik ist die Grundlage für alles.
Good grammar is the foundation for everything.
Der, die or das?
Grundlage is feminine: die Grundlage. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Grundlage in the top 5,000
These forms of Grundlage are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Im ersten Kurs lernt man die Grundlagen.
In the first course you learn the basics.
How common is Grundlage?
Grundlage is number 638 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 140 times per million words — about once every 7,100 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 60% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Grundlage is built from der Grund (reason; ground) + die Lage (situation; location).
Words built on Grundlage:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 634der Nutzeruser(s)
- 635erreichtreached, achieved
- 636entsprechendcorresponding(ly), accordingly
- 637gewordenbecome (past participle)
- 638die Grundlagebasis, foundation
- 639suchenlook for, search
- 640Jugendlichenyoung people, teenagers
- 641meistmostly, usually
- 642spieltplays
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#638
- The 5,000 most common German words#638
- The most common German nouns#177
- German B2 vocabulary#37
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#61
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.