die Opposition
Meaning in English: opposition
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Die Opposition kritisiert den Plan scharf.
The opposition sharply criticises the plan.
Der, die or das?
Opposition is feminine: die Opposition. 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 Opposition?
Opposition is number 3,590 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. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,586der Einzugmoving in; entry
- 3,587Reaktionenreactions, responses
- 3,588untereinanderamong each other, among themselves
- 3,589privatprivate(ly)
- 3,590die Oppositionopposition
- 3,591Mengenquantities, amounts
- 3,592studiertstudies; studied
- 3,593verlegtmoved, relocated; laid; mislaid
- 3,594äußernto express, to voice
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,590
- The most common German nouns#1,535
- German C1 vocabulary#200
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#504
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.