German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Sendung
Meaning in English: programme, broadcast; shipment
Example
Die Sendung läuft jeden Sonntag um acht.
The programme is on every Sunday at eight.
Der, die or das?
Sendung is feminine: die Sendung. 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 Sendung?
Sendung is number 2,237 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 41 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,233ehebefore (conjunction)
- 2,234die Teilhabeparticipation, inclusion
- 2,235die Lustdesire, wish; 'feel like'
- 2,236besondererspecial, particular (inflected)
- 2,237die Sendungprogramme, broadcast; shipment
- 2,238verdientearned; deserved
- 2,239getandone (past participle)
- 2,240Hilfenaid, help(s), assistance
- 2,241die Anzeigead; (police) report; display
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,237
- The most common German nouns#923
- German B1 vocabulary#717
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#302
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