German noun, feminine · CEFR B1

die Region

Meaning in English: region

Rank 399 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B12 forms in the list

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Example

Die Region ist bekannt für ihren Wein.

The region is known for its wine.

Der, die or das?

Region is feminine: die Region. 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 Region in the top 5,000

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

Regionen#1,139
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In manchen Regionen regnet es kaum.
In some regions it hardly rains.

How common is Region?

Region is number 399 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 224 times per million words — about once every 4,500 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 56% 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. 395die Hochschuleuniversity, college
  2. 396der SamstagSaturday
  3. 397eigeneown
  4. 398gehörtbelongs; heard
  5. 399die Regionregion
  6. 400zuletztlast, most recently; finally
  7. 401eigentlichactually, really
  8. 402mindestensat least
  9. 403der MaiMay

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