die Umstellung
Meaning in English: changeover, switch, adjustment
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Die Umstellung auf die Winterzeit fällt mir schwer.
I find the switch to winter time hard.
Der, die or das?
Umstellung is feminine: die Umstellung. 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 Umstellung?
Umstellung is number 4,501 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 56,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,497Gremiencommittees, bodies
- 4,498angegebenenstated, specified
- 4,499wähltchooses; votes; dials
- 4,500der Zollcustoms, duty; inch
- 4,501die Umstellungchangeover, switch, adjustment
- 4,502der Konsumconsumption
- 4,503stärktstrengthens
- 4,504Phasenphases, stages
- 4,505ausgewertetevaluated, analysed
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,501
- The most common German nouns#1,958
- German B2 vocabulary#1,088
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#639
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.