German noun, feminine · CEFR B2

die Schwangerschaft

Meaning in English: pregnancy

Rank 3,047 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B2
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Example

Während der Schwangerschaft trank sie keinen Kaffee.

She didn't drink coffee during her pregnancy.

Der, die or das?

Schwangerschaft is feminine: die Schwangerschaft. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -schaft are die in 19 of 19 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Schwangerschaft?

Schwangerschaft is number 3,047 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 29 times per million words — about once every 35,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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

  1. 3,043die Präsentationpresentation
  2. 3,044die Ampeltraffic light(s); coalition
  3. 3,045der Schneesnow
  4. 3,046nochmalsagain, once more
  5. 3,047die Schwangerschaftpregnancy
  6. 3,048durchschnittlichon average, average
  7. 3,049durchzuführento carry out
  8. 3,050unbekanntenunknown
  9. 3,051spürento feel, to sense

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