die Sicherheit
Meaning in English: safety, security
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Die Sicherheit der Kinder geht vor.
The children's safety comes first.
Der, die or das?
Sicherheit is feminine: die Sicherheit. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -heit are die in 11 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Sicherheit?
Sicherheit is number 566 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 156 times per million words — about once every 6,400 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 59% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#566
- The 5,000 most common German words#566
- The most common German nouns#144
- German B1 vocabulary#114
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#47
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.