die Hoffnung
Meaning in English: hope
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Gib die Hoffnung nicht auf!
Don't give up hope!
Der, die or das?
Hoffnung is feminine: die Hoffnung. 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 Hoffnung?
Hoffnung is number 1,621 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 57 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,617die Ebenelevel, plane
- 1,618erfolgreichesuccessful
- 1,619der Schlussend, conclusion
- 1,620Fällecases
- 1,621die Hoffnunghope
- 1,622dringendurgent(ly)
- 1,623der Bestandteilcomponent, part
- 1,624die Analyseanalysis
- 1,625die Mitteilungnotice, message, announcement
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,621
- The most common German nouns#628
- German B1 vocabulary#503
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#214
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.