die Meinung
Meaning in English: opinion
False friend: Meinung is not “meaning”. It is an opinion. Meaning is die Bedeutung. More false friends.
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Meiner Meinung nach ist das zu teuer.
In my opinion that's too expensive.
Der, die or das?
Meinung is feminine: die Meinung. 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.
Forms of Meinung in the top 5,000
These forms of Meinung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Zu diesem Film gibt es sehr unterschiedliche Meinungen.
Opinions on this film differ widely.
How common is Meinung?
Meinung is number 1,377 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 66 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
- 1,373die Umgebungsurroundings, area
- 1,374die Partiegame, match
- 1,375empfehlento recommend
- 1,376die Nummernumber
- 1,377die Meinungopinion
- 1,378Fähigkeitenabilities, skills
- 1,379Straßenstreets, roads
- 1,380das Vorhabenplan, project
- 1,381Veränderungenchanges
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,377
- The most common German nouns#507
- German A2 vocabulary#323
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#180
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.