die Steigerung
Meaning in English: increase, rise
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Im Vergleich zum Vorjahr ist das eine deutliche Steigerung.
Compared with last year, that's a clear increase.
Der, die or das?
Steigerung is feminine: die Steigerung. 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 Steigerung?
Steigerung is number 4,209 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 51,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,205schwierigedifficult
- 4,206besterbest
- 4,207angefangenstarted, begun
- 4,208ausländischeforeign
- 4,209die Steigerungincrease, rise
- 4,210die Entlastungrelief, easing (of burden)
- 4,211Siegenvictories, wins (dative)
- 4,212KanadaCanada
- 4,213die Überwachungsurveillance, monitoring
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,209
- The most common German nouns#1,821
- German B2 vocabulary#984
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#582
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.