die Haltung
Meaning in English: attitude, stance; posture
Example
Achte beim Sitzen auf eine gerade Haltung.
Keep a straight posture when you sit.
Der, die or das?
Haltung is feminine: die Haltung. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ung are die in 224 of 226 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Haltung?
Haltung is number 2,488 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 36 times per million words — about once every 28,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Words built on Haltung:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,484der Eintrittadmission, entry
- 2,485tausendethousands (of)
- 2,486Waffenweapons
- 2,487zeichnetdraws; (sich aus) stands out
- 2,488die Haltungattitude, stance; posture
- 2,489folgendefollowing
- 2,490das Holzwood
- 2,491diskutierendiscuss
- 2,492komme(I) come
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,488
- The most common German nouns#1,037
- German B2 vocabulary#453
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#340
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.