die Position
Meaning in English: position
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Er hat eine gute Position in der Firma.
He has a good position in the company.
Der, die or das?
Position is feminine: die Position. 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.
Forms of Position in the top 5,000
These forms of Position are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Spieler tauschten in der Pause ihre Positionen.
The players swapped positions at half-time.
How common is Position?
Position is number 1,611 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 57 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,607die Versionversion
- 1,608rotenred
- 1,609speziellspecial(ly), specific(ally)
- 1,610Firmencompanies, firms
- 1,611die Positionposition
- 1,612begannbegan, started
- 1,613Schädendamage(s)
- 1,614vermutlichpresumably, probably
- 1,615bist(you) are
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,611
- The most common German nouns#622
- German B1 vocabulary#497
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#212
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.