die Meldung
Meaning in English: report, news item; notification
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Auf dem Handy kam gerade eine Meldung.
A notification just came up on my phone.
Der, die or das?
Meldung is feminine: die Meldung. 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 Meldung in the top 5,000
These forms of Meldung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Meldungen im Radio klingen beunruhigend.
The reports on the radio sound worrying.
How common is Meldung?
Meldung is number 3,629 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,625beiderof both (genitive)
- 3,626unterliegento be subject to; to lose (to)
- 3,627Freistaatesfree state (genitive)
- 3,628berechnetcalculated; charged
- 3,629die Meldungreport, news item; notification
- 3,630das Öloil
- 3,631der Mietvertragtenancy agreement, lease
- 3,632die Empfehlungrecommendation
- 3,633Migrantenmigrants
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,629
- The most common German nouns#1,551
- German B1 vocabulary#1,167
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#508
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.