der Mangel
Meaning in English: lack, shortage, defect
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Es herrscht ein großer Mangel an Pflegekräften.
There is a severe shortage of nurses.
Der, die or das?
Mangel is masculine: der Mangel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Mangel in the top 5,000
These forms of Mangel are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Wohnung hat einige Mängel, zum Beispiel Schimmel.
The flat has a few defects, mould for example.
How common is Mangel?
Mangel is number 4,172 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 51,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,168der Moderatorpresenter, host
- 4,169der Transfertransfer
- 4,170übrigleft (over), remaining
- 4,171die Wahrscheinlichkeitprobability, likelihood
- 4,172der Mangellack, shortage, defect
- 4,173leidsorry (in "es tut mir leid")
- 4,174ambulantenoutpatient
- 4,175warntewarned
- 4,176gewähltenelected, chosen
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,172
- The most common German nouns#1,807
- German B2 vocabulary#974
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#464
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.