German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Rettung
Meaning in English: rescue, salvation
Example
Die Rettung kam in letzter Minute.
Rescue came at the last minute.
Der, die or das?
Rettung is feminine: die Rettung. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ung are die in 224 of 226 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Rettung?
Rettung is number 4,282 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Rettung:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,278unterhalbbelow, beneath
- 4,279woherwhere from
- 4,280ausgenommenexcept, excluded
- 4,281letztendlichultimately, in the end
- 4,282die Rettungrescue, salvation
- 4,283kirchlichenchurch (adj.), ecclesiastical
- 4,284die Meisterschaftchampionship
- 4,285sicherersafer, more certain
- 4,286auswählento select, to choose
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,282
- The most common German nouns#1,860
- German B1 vocabulary#1,394
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#602
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