die Operation
Meaning in English: operation, surgery
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Die Operation ist gut verlaufen.
The operation went well.
Der, die or das?
Operation is feminine: die Operation. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ion are die in 46 of 47 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Operation?
Operation is number 4,106 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 50,000 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
- 4,102bleibestay (I)
- 4,103prüftchecks, examines, tests
- 4,104Interviewsinterviews
- 4,105der Steinstone, rock
- 4,106die Operationoperation, surgery
- 4,107verweistrefers (to), points to
- 4,108der Schneidertailor
- 4,109massivenmassive, solid, severe
- 4,110psychischenmental, psychological
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,106
- The most common German nouns#1,778
- German B1 vocabulary#1,329
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#568
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.