German noun, feminine · CEFR B1

die Nachbarschaft

Meaning in English: neighbourhood

Rank 4,330 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B1
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Example

In unserer Nachbarschaft kennen sich alle.

Everyone knows each other in our neighbourhood.

Der, die or das?

Nachbarschaft is feminine: die Nachbarschaft. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -schaft are die in 19 of 19 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Nachbarschaft?

Nachbarschaft is number 4,330 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 53,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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

  1. 4,326heißhot
  2. 4,327Lehrveranstaltungencourses, classes (university)
  3. 4,328hervorragendeexcellent, outstanding
  4. 4,329die Persönlichkeitpersonality
  5. 4,330die Nachbarschaftneighbourhood
  6. 4,331die Datenbankdatabase
  7. 4,332der Geistspirit, mind, ghost
  8. 4,333deutlichenclear, marked
  9. 4,334akzeptierento accept

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