die Trennung
Meaning in English: separation, break-up
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Nach der Trennung ist er in eine kleine Wohnung gezogen.
After the break-up he moved into a small flat.
Der, die or das?
Trennung is feminine: die Trennung. 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 Trennung?
Trennung is number 3,307 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 26 times per million words — about once every 39,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,303ausfallento be cancelled, to fail
- 3,304Ansprücheclaims, demands, standards
- 3,305die Bestätigungconfirmation
- 3,306versorgento supply, to look after
- 3,307die Trennungseparation, break-up
- 3,308der Oberbürgermeister(lord) mayor
- 3,309Absolventengraduates
- 3,310bewältigento cope with, to manage
- 3,311Bewerbungenapplications
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,307
- The most common German nouns#1,400
- German B1 vocabulary#1,078
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#463
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.