die Möglichkeit
Meaning in English: possibility, opportunity
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Gibt es die Möglichkeit, später zu zahlen?
Is it possible to pay later?
Der, die or das?
Möglichkeit is feminine: die Möglichkeit. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -keit are die in 15 of 15 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Möglichkeit in the top 5,000
These forms of Möglichkeit are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In der Stadt gibt es viele Möglichkeiten zum Ausgehen.
There are lots of options for going out in the city.
How common is Möglichkeit?
Möglichkeit is number 270 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 322 times per million words — about once every 3,100 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 53% 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
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#270
- The 1,000 most common German words#270
- The 5,000 most common German words#270
- The most common German nouns#37
- German A2 vocabulary#60
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#10
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.