die Tradition
Meaning in English: tradition
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Bei uns ist Fondue an Silvester Tradition.
Fondue on New Year's Eve is a tradition in our family.
Der, die or das?
Tradition is feminine: die Tradition. 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.
How common is Tradition?
Tradition is number 2,020 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 45 times per million words — about once every 22,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,016unterschiedlichdifferent, varying
- 2,017Diensteservices
- 2,018Rahmenbedingungengeneral conditions, framework
- 2,019die Spitzetop, tip, peak; lace
- 2,020die Traditiontradition
- 2,021aussehento look, to appear
- 2,022die Veröffentlichungpublication, release
- 2,023Mitgliedernmembers (dative plural)
- 2,024Plätzeplaces, seats, squares
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,020
- The most common German nouns#810
- German B1 vocabulary#646
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#267
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.