die Kreuzung
Meaning in English: crossroads, junction
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An der nächsten Kreuzung biegen Sie links ab.
Turn left at the next junction.
Der, die or das?
Kreuzung is feminine: die Kreuzung. 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 Kreuzung?
Kreuzung is number 4,844 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 61,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,840der Awardaward
- 4,841ausgeführtcarried out, executed
- 4,842warnento warn
- 4,843verursachento cause
- 4,844die Kreuzungcrossroads, junction
- 4,845auszutauschento exchange, to replace (zu-inf.)
- 4,846vorrangigprimarily, priority
- 4,847einheitlicheuniform, standard
- 4,848Abläufeprocesses, procedures
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,844
- The most common German nouns#2,126
- German A2 vocabulary#955
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#692
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.