German noun, feminine · CEFR B2

die Perspektive

Meaning in English: perspective; prospects

Rank 2,569 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B22 forms in the list

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Example

Aus meiner Perspektive war das ein Fehler.
From my perspective, that was a mistake.

Der, die or das?

Perspektive is feminine: die Perspektive. 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.

Forms of Perspektive in the top 5,000

These forms of Perspektive are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Perspektiven#2,208

perspectives, prospectsB2

Auf dem Land fehlen jungen Leuten oft Perspektiven.
Young people in the countryside often lack prospects.

How common is Perspektive?

Perspektive is number 2,569 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 35 times per million words — about once every 29,000 words. Its most frequent form is Perspektiven (#2,208).

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

2,565sendensend, broadcast
2,566glücklichhappy
2,567sicherlichcertainly, surely
2,568Gästenguests (dative plural)
2,569die Perspektiveperspective; prospects
2,570findest(you) find, think
2,571kleinessmall, little
2,572beantwortetanswered
2,573verabschiedetsaid goodbye; passed (a law)

In these word lists

The 5,000 most common German words#2,569
The most common German nouns#1,072
German B2 vocabulary#469
The most common German feminine nouns (die)#352

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