die Niederlage
Meaning in English: defeat
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Nach der Niederlage war die Stimmung schlecht.
After the defeat the mood was bad.
Der, die or das?
Niederlage is feminine: die Niederlage. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Niederlage?
Niederlage is number 2,465 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 37 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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
- 2,461der Rangrank, place
- 2,462gesellschaftlichesocial, societal
- 2,463rechtlichenlegal
- 2,464Zinseninterest (on money)
- 2,465die Niederlagedefeat
- 2,466diejenigenthose (who)
- 2,467Jahrhundertsof the century (genitive)
- 2,468die Bearbeitungprocessing, editing
- 2,469der Gemeinderattown council, councillor
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,465
- The most common German nouns#1,026
- German B2 vocabulary#445
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#337
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.