German noun, feminine · CEFR B2

die Stellung

Meaning in English: position, stance

Rank 3,123 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B2
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Example

Der Minister wollte dazu keine Stellung nehmen.

The minister didn't want to comment on it.

Der, die or das?

Stellung is feminine: die Stellung. 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 Stellung?

Stellung is number 3,123 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 28 times per million words — about once every 36,000 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.

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Words built on Stellung:

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,119günstigercheaper, more favourable
  2. 3,120verliehenawarded; lent
  3. 3,121feiertecelebrated
  4. 3,122vorhandenenexisting, available
  5. 3,123die Stellungposition, stance
  6. 3,124ungefährabout, approximately
  7. 3,125orientierento orient, to get one's bearings
  8. 3,126Fächersubjects; compartments
  9. 3,127das Grundstückplot of land, property

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