German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Leitung
Meaning in English: management, line, pipe
Example
Die Leitung ist besetzt, ich versuche es später.
The line is busy; I'll try later.
Der, die or das?
Leitung is feminine: die Leitung. 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 Leitung?
Leitung is number 1,453 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 63 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,449der Testtest
- 1,450vermittelnto convey, to arrange, to mediate
- 1,451wiederumin turn, on the other hand
- 1,452der Waldforest, woods
- 1,453die Leitungmanagement, line, pipe
- 1,454beziehungsweiseor rather, respectively
- 1,455verfügbaravailable
- 1,456höherhigher
- 1,457der Kaufpurchase
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,453
- The most common German nouns#549
- German B2 vocabulary#206
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#193
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