German noun, neuter · CEFR C1
das Umfeld
Meaning in English: environment, circle, surroundings
Example
In meinem Umfeld haben viele Leute Kinder.
Lots of people around me have children.
Der, die or das?
Umfeld is neuter: das Umfeld. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Umfeld?
Umfeld is number 1,419 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 65 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,415modernemodern
- 1,416übernommentaken over, adopted
- 1,417der Klimaschutzclimate protection
- 1,418der Namename
- 1,419das Umfeldenvironment, circle, surroundings
- 1,420lieberrather, preferably
- 1,421Gründereasons
- 1,422die Minuteminute
- 1,423der Mittelpunktcentre, focus
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,419
- The most common German nouns#530
- German C1 vocabulary#34
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#67
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