German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Herkunft
Meaning in English: origin, background
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Die Herkunft des Fleisches steht auf der Packung.
The origin of the meat is on the packaging.
Der, die or das?
Herkunft is feminine: die Herkunft. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Herkunft?
Herkunft is number 2,903 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 30 times per million words — about once every 33,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,899der Quadratmetersquare metre
- 2,900die Belastungburden, strain, load
- 2,901der Romannovel
- 2,902der Hofyard, courtyard, farm, court
- 2,903die Herkunftorigin, background
- 2,904genügendenough, sufficient
- 2,905vorgelegtpresented, submitted
- 2,906glaubtbelieves, thinks
- 2,907kennenlernento get to know, to meet
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,903
- The most common German nouns#1,232
- German B1 vocabulary#934
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#412
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.