German noun, feminine · CEFR A2

die Möglichkeit

Meaning in English: possibility, opportunity

Rank 270 of 5,000noun · dieLevel A22 forms in the list
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Example

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:

Möglichkeiten#487
possibilities, optionsA2

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

  1. 266fünffive
  2. 267Personenpersons, people
  3. 268ebenfallslikewise, also
  4. 269die Entwicklungdevelopment
  5. 270die Möglichkeitpossibility, opportunity
  6. 271fastalmost, nearly
  7. 272zeigtshows
  8. 273die Frauwoman; wife; Mrs
  9. 274langelong, for a long time

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