die Kleidung
Meaning in English: clothes, clothing
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Nimm warme Kleidung mit, es wird kalt.
Take warm clothes with you, it's going to be cold.
Der, die or das?
Kleidung is feminine: die Kleidung. 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 Kleidung?
Kleidung is number 2,973 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 29 times per million words — about once every 34,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,969bedrohtthreatened, endangered
- 2,970die Aufklärungclarification, education, Enlightenment
- 2,971die Bereitstellungprovision, supply
- 2,972starbdied
- 2,973die Kleidungclothes, clothing
- 2,974Beamtecivil servant(s), officer(s)
- 2,975darstellento represent, to depict
- 2,976schautlooks, watches
- 2,977der Traumdream
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,973
- The most common German nouns#1,261
- German A2 vocabulary#651
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#425
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.