das Potenzial
Meaning in English: potential
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Die Idee hat echtes Potenzial.
The idea has real potential.
Der, die or das?
Potenzial is neuter: das Potenzial. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -al are das in 9 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Potenzial in the top 5,000
These forms of Potenzial are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In der Region stecken viele ungenutzte Potenziale.
The region has a lot of untapped potential.
How common is Potenzial?
Potenzial is number 2,193 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 41 times per million words — about once every 24,000 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
- 2,189schließtcloses, shuts; concludes
- 2,190das Bürooffice
- 2,191die Tourtour, trip
- 2,192finanziertfinanced, funded
- 2,193das Potenzialpotential
- 2,194vorausahead, in advance
- 2,195Kenntnisseknowledge, skills
- 2,196bewertetrated, assessed, evaluated
- 2,197Systemesystems
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,193
- The most common German nouns#900
- German B2 vocabulary#370
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#113
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.