German noun, feminine · CEFR B1

die Leistung

Meaning in English: performance, achievement; service

Rank 864 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B12 forms in the list
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Example

Das war wirklich eine tolle Leistung!

That was a really great achievement!

Der, die or das?

Leistung is feminine: die Leistung. 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.

Forms of Leistung in the top 5,000

These forms of Leistung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Leistungen#616
performance, results; servicesB2

Ihre Leistungen in Mathe sind besser geworden.
Her results in maths have improved.

How common is Leistung?

Leistung is number 864 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 102 times per million words — about once every 9,800 words. Its most frequent form is Leistungen (#616).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Related words in the list

Words built on Leistung:

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 860erfolgentake place, be carried out
  2. 861altold
  3. 862verlassenleave
  4. 863kamencame
  5. 864die Leistungperformance, achievement; service
  6. 865manchmalsometimes
  7. 866ChinaChina
  8. 867sogenannteso-called
  9. 868meinermy (dat./gen. feminine); mine

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