die Nachhaltigkeit
Meaning in English: sustainability
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Beim Einkaufen achte ich auf Nachhaltigkeit.
When shopping I pay attention to sustainability.
Der, die or das?
Nachhaltigkeit is feminine: die Nachhaltigkeit. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -keit are die in 15 of 15 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Nachhaltigkeit?
Nachhaltigkeit is number 1,481 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 62 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,477erfüllento fulfil, to meet (requirements)
- 1,478die Sitzungmeeting, session
- 1,479die Mehrheitmajority
- 1,480lebtlives
- 1,481die Nachhaltigkeitsustainability
- 1,482bisschena bit, a little
- 1,483Beiträgecontributions, posts, fees
- 1,484gehe(I) go
- 1,485das Ministeriumministry
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,481
- The most common German nouns#560
- German B2 vocabulary#212
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#196
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.