die Maßnahme
Meaning in English: measure, step
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Das war nur eine Maßnahme zur Sicherheit.
That was just a safety measure.
Der, die or das?
Maßnahme is feminine: die Maßnahme. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Maßnahme in the top 5,000
These forms of Maßnahme are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Schule plant neue Maßnahmen gegen Mobbing.
The school is planning new measures against bullying.
How common is Maßnahme?
Maßnahme is number 2,170 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 42 times per million words — about once every 24,000 words. Its most frequent form is Maßnahmen (#356).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 2,166das Coronaviruscoronavirus
- 2,167voranahead, forward
- 2,168die Kameracamera
- 2,169wesentlichenessential, main (inflected)
- 2,170die Maßnahmemeasure, step
- 2,171nennento name, to call
- 2,172Kriteriencriteria
- 2,173erzählento tell, to narrate
- 2,174engagierento get involved; to hire
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,170
- The most common German nouns#887
- German B2 vocabulary#361
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#294
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.