der Hintergrund
Meaning in English: background
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Im Hintergrund läuft leise Musik.
Quiet music is playing in the background.
Der, die or das?
Hintergrund is masculine: der Hintergrund. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Hintergrund in the top 5,000
These forms of Hintergrund are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Über die Hintergründe ist noch nichts bekannt.
Nothing is known yet about the background.
How common is Hintergrund?
Hintergrund is number 1,001 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 89 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Hintergrund is built from der Grund (reason; ground).
Words built on Hintergrund:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 997fallsin case, if
- 998das Mittelmeans, remedy, funds
- 999hierbeiin doing so, here
- 1,000unterschiedlichedifferent, various
- 1,001der Hintergrundbackground
- 1,002folgendenfollowing
- 1,003Gruppengroups
- 1,004losoff, going on, wrong
- 1,005nämlichnamely, you see, because
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,001
- The most common German nouns#349
- German B1 vocabulary#273
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#92
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