die Leidenschaft
Meaning in English: passion
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Kochen ist meine große Leidenschaft.
Cooking is my great passion.
Der, die or das?
Leidenschaft is feminine: die Leidenschaft. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -schaft are die in 19 of 19 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Leidenschaft?
Leidenschaft is number 2,728 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 33 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. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,724investiertinvested
- 2,725schwarzblack
- 2,726zugelassenallowed; approved, registered
- 2,727die Brückebridge
- 2,728die Leidenschaftpassion
- 2,729die Mailemail
- 2,730geeignetesuitable
- 2,731gelerntlearned
- 2,732der Wolfwolf
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,728
- The most common German nouns#1,143
- German B2 vocabulary#519
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#377
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.