German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Ordnung
Meaning in English: order, tidiness
Example
Ist alles in Ordnung bei dir?
Is everything okay with you?
Der, die or das?
Ordnung is feminine: die Ordnung. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ung are die in 224 of 226 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Ordnung?
Ordnung is number 2,289 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Words built on Ordnung:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,285optimaloptimal, ideal
- 2,286weshalbwhy; which is why
- 2,287die Staffelseason (TV); relay team
- 2,288engagiertcommitted, dedicated; involved
- 2,289die Ordnungorder, tidiness
- 2,290Nachbarnneighbours; neighbour (acc./dat.)
- 2,291Farbencolours; paints
- 2,292geschehento happen, to occur
- 2,293bekamgot, received (past)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,289
- The most common German nouns#946
- German A2 vocabulary#527
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#311
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