German noun, feminine · CEFR C1

die Prävention

Meaning in English: prevention

Rank 2,860 of 5,000noun · dieLevel C1

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Example

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

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  3. 2,858der Konzerngroup, corporation
  4. 2,859Kitasdaycare centres, nurseries
  5. 2,860die Präventionprevention
  6. 2,861die Stellungnahmestatement, comment
  7. 2,862der Ausdruckexpression; printout
  8. 2,863die Republikrepublic
  9. 2,864denktthinks

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