German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Schuld
Meaning in English: fault, guilt; debt
Example
Das war nicht deine Schuld.
That wasn't your fault.
Der, die or das?
Schuld is feminine: die Schuld. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Schuld?
Schuld is number 3,237 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 26 times per million words — about once every 38,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,233wiespointed, showed; rejected
- 3,234die Anpassungadjustment, adaptation
- 3,235selbensame
- 3,236Kategoriencategories
- 3,237die Schuldfault, guilt; debt
- 3,238die Zahlungpayment
- 3,239das Gemüsevegetables
- 3,240durftenwere allowed to
- 3,241vollefull
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,237
- The most common German nouns#1,370
- German B1 vocabulary#1,053
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#453
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