die Inflation
Meaning in English: inflation
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Wegen der Inflation ist alles teurer.
Everything is more expensive because of inflation.
Der, die or das?
Inflation is feminine: die Inflation. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ion are die in 46 of 47 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Inflation?
Inflation is number 1,729 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 53 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,725gesprochenspoken, talked
- 1,726das Trainingtraining, practice
- 1,727entdecktdiscovered
- 1,728erhieltreceived
- 1,729die Inflationinflation
- 1,730fordernto demand, to call for
- 1,731der Gastguest
- 1,732modernenmodern
- 1,733vorstellento introduce, to imagine
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,729
- The most common German nouns#684
- German B2 vocabulary#251
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#237
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.