German noun, feminine · CEFR A2

die Richtung

Meaning in English: direction

Rank 509 of 5,000noun · dieLevel A2
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Example

Fährt dieser Bus in Richtung Zentrum?

Does this bus go towards the centre?

Der, die or das?

Richtung is feminine: die Richtung. 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 Richtung?

Richtung is number 509 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 176 times per million words — about once every 5,700 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 58% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

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Words built on Richtung:

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 505dir(to) you (dative, informal)
  2. 506solchesuch
  3. 507Angeboteoffers, deals
  4. 508jedesevery, each (neuter)
  5. 509die Richtungdirection
  6. 510danachafterwards, after that
  7. 511daranabout it, on it
  8. 512kommendencoming, next
  9. 513gegebengiven

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