die Prävention
Meaning in English: prevention
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Prävention ist besser als jede Behandlung.
Prevention is better than any treatment.
Der, die or das?
Prävention is feminine: die Prävention. 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.
How common is Prävention?
Prävention is number 2,860 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 31 times per million words — about once every 32,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,856Eigenschaftenqualities, characteristics
- 2,857jungeryoung
- 2,858der Konzerngroup, corporation
- 2,859Kitasdaycare centres, nurseries
- 2,860die Präventionprevention
- 2,861die Stellungnahmestatement, comment
- 2,862der Ausdruckexpression; printout
- 2,863die Republikrepublic
- 2,864denktthinks
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,860
- The most common German nouns#1,206
- German C1 vocabulary#125
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#400
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.