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German noun, masculine · CEFR B2

der Umbau

Meaning in English: renovation, conversion, restructuring

Rank 3,419 of 5,000noun · derLevel B2
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Example

Wegen Umbau ist der Laden geschlossen.

The shop is closed for renovation.

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Umbau is masculine: der Umbau. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Umbau?

Umbau is number 3,419 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 40,000 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.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,415letzterlast
  2. 3,416jüdischenJewish
  3. 3,417auseinanderapart
  4. 3,418nachtsat night
  5. 3,419der Umbaurenovation, conversion, restructuring
  6. 3,420Preisenprices (dative pl.)
  7. 3,421Smartsmart (in Smart Home, Smart TV)
  8. 3,422Ursachencauses
  9. 3,423trafenmet (past tense, plural)

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