German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Umfang
Meaning in English: extent, scope, size
Example
Der Umfang der Arbeit hat mich überrascht.
The amount of work surprised me.
Der, die or das?
Umfang is masculine: der Umfang. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Umfang?
Umfang is number 1,544 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 60 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Words built on Umfang:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,540ergebento result in, to yield
- 1,541Klassenclasses, grades
- 1,542vollerfull of, fuller
- 1,543SchweizerSwiss, Swiss person
- 1,544der Umfangextent, scope, size
- 1,545schließento close, to shut
- 1,546setzteset, put, sat (oneself) down
- 1,547der Auftrittappearance, performance
- 1,548wirkento seem, to work, to have an effect
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,544
- The most common German nouns#599
- German B2 vocabulary#222
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#166
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