die Revolution
Meaning in English: revolution
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Das Smartphone war eine kleine Revolution.
The smartphone was a small revolution.
Der, die or das?
Revolution is feminine: die Revolution. 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 Revolution?
Revolution is number 4,510 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 56,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,506die Künstlerinartist (female)
- 4,507hervorragendexcellent, outstanding
- 4,508die Katastrophecatastrophe, disaster
- 4,509verknüpftlinked, connected
- 4,510die Revolutionrevolution
- 4,511das Verbrechencrime
- 4,512verzeichnetrecorded, registered
- 4,513tiefendeep
- 4,514ChinasChina's, of China
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,510
- The most common German nouns#1,963
- German B2 vocabulary#1,092
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#642
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.