German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Heizung
Meaning in English: heating, radiator
Example
Kannst du bitte die Heizung anmachen?
Can you turn the heating on, please?
Der, die or das?
Heizung is feminine: die Heizung. 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 Heizung?
Heizung is number 4,129 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 50,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,125die Stabilitätstability
- 4,126heutzutagenowadays
- 4,127Insekteninsects
- 4,128entsprechenderappropriate, corresponding
- 4,129die Heizungheating, radiator
- 4,130bedienento serve, to operate
- 4,131der Rückstanddeficit, arrears, backlog
- 4,132österreichischeAustrian
- 4,133demokratischendemocratic
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,129
- The most common German nouns#1,788
- German A2 vocabulary#852
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#572
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.