German noun, feminine · CEFR B2

die Konkurrenz

Meaning in English: competition, competitors

Rank 2,549 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B2
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Example

Die Konkurrenz ist in dieser Branche groß.

Competition is fierce in this industry.

Der, die or das?

Konkurrenz is feminine: die Konkurrenz. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -enz are die in 8 of 8 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Konkurrenz?

Konkurrenz is number 2,549 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 35 times per million words — about once every 28,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

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