German noun, feminine · CEFR A2

die Meinung

Meaning in English: opinion

Rank 1,377 of 5,000noun · dieLevel A22 forms in the list

False friend: Meinung is not “meaning”. It is an opinion. Meaning is die Bedeutung. More false friends.

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Example

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:

Meinungen#4,801
opinionsA2

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. 1,373die Umgebungsurroundings, area
  2. 1,374die Partiegame, match
  3. 1,375empfehlento recommend
  4. 1,376die Nummernumber
  5. 1,377die Meinungopinion
  6. 1,378Fähigkeitenabilities, skills
  7. 1,379Straßenstreets, roads
  8. 1,380das Vorhabenplan, project
  9. 1,381Veränderungenchanges

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