die Orientierung
Meaning in English: orientation, guidance
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Test my vocabularyExample
In der fremden Stadt habe ich schnell die Orientierung verloren.
I quickly lost my bearings in the unfamiliar city.
Der, die or das?
Orientierung is feminine: die Orientierung. 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 Orientierung?
Orientierung is number 2,264 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. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,260Umständencircumstances (dative plural)
- 2,261der Musikermusician(s)
- 2,262beteiligento take part; to involve
- 2,263rotered (inflected)
- 2,264die Orientierungorientation, guidance
- 2,265überzeugento convince, to persuade
- 2,266die Verordnungregulation, ordinance; prescription
- 2,267das Einkommenincome
- 2,268die Informatikcomputer science
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,264
- The most common German nouns#935
- German B2 vocabulary#389
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#305
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.