German noun, feminine · CEFR A2

die Situation

Meaning in English: situation

Rank 497 of 5,000noun · dieLevel A22 forms in the list

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Example

Die Situation ist schwieriger, als ich dachte.

The situation is more difficult than I thought.

Der, die or das?

Situation is feminine: die Situation. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ion are die in 46 of 47 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Situation in the top 5,000

These forms of Situation are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Situationen#2,152
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In solchen Situationen bleibt sie immer ruhig.
She always stays calm in situations like that.

How common is Situation?

Situation is number 497 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 179 times per million words — about once every 5,600 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 58% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 493schwerheavy; difficult
  2. 494jungenyoung
  3. 495Projekteprojects
  4. 496gleichzeitigat the same time, simultaneous
  5. 497die Situationsituation
  6. 498zahlreichenumerous, many
  7. 499entwickeltdeveloped; develops
  8. 500die Regelrule
  9. 501das Wasserwater

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