die Innovation
Meaning in English: innovation
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Die Firma setzt stark auf Innovation.
The company relies heavily on innovation.
Der, die or das?
Innovation is feminine: die Innovation. 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.
Forms of Innovation in the top 5,000
These forms of Innovation are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Firma investiert viel Geld in Innovationen.
The company invests a lot of money in innovation.
How common is Innovation?
Innovation is number 2,761 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 32 times per million words — about once every 31,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,757kritischcritical, critically
- 2,758zulässigpermitted, allowed
- 2,759täglichendaily
- 2,760engeclose, narrow, tight
- 2,761die Innovationinnovation
- 2,762vereinenunite, combine
- 2,763Bundesländerfederal states
- 2,764das Portalportal (website); gateway
- 2,765massivmassive, severe; solid
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,761
- The most common German nouns#1,156
- German C1 vocabulary#110
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#384
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.