das Schicksal
Meaning in English: fate, destiny
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Vielleicht war es einfach Schicksal.
Maybe it was simply fate.
Der, die or das?
Schicksal is neuter: das Schicksal. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -al are das in 9 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Schicksal?
Schicksal is number 4,271 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. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,267unglaublichunbelievable, incredible
- 4,268erlittsuffered
- 4,269nullzero
- 4,270der Saalhall, room
- 4,271das Schicksalfate, destiny
- 4,272erwähntmentioned
- 4,273die Wertschätzungappreciation, esteem
- 4,274die Storystory
- 4,275die Frontfront, facade
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,271
- The most common German nouns#1,854
- German B2 vocabulary#1,008
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#222
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.