German noun, feminine · CEFR B2

die Toleranz

Meaning in English: tolerance

Rank 4,641 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B2

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Example

In einer WG braucht man viel Toleranz.

You need a lot of tolerance in a flat share.

Der, die or das?

Toleranz is feminine: die Toleranz. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -anz are die in 5 of 5 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Toleranz?

Toleranz is number 4,641 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 58,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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

  1. 4,637wildwild
  2. 4,638untersagtprohibited, forbidden
  3. 4,639verschiedenstenmost diverse, all sorts of
  4. 4,640mittleremiddle, medium, average
  5. 4,641die Toleranztolerance
  6. 4,642fremdeforeign, strange, unfamiliar
  7. 4,643das Liedsong
  8. 4,644RussenRussians
  9. 4,645angeschlossenconnected, attached

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