German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Umwelt
Meaning in English: environment
Example
Radfahren ist gut für die Umwelt.
Cycling is good for the environment.
Der, die or das?
Umwelt is feminine: die Umwelt. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Umwelt?
Umwelt is number 1,014 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 89 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Words built on Umwelt:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,010achtento pay attention, to respect
- 1,011die Ausstellungexhibition
- 1,012der Kilometerkilometre
- 1,013Lösungensolutions
- 1,014die Umweltenvironment
- 1,015neunnine
- 1,016beratento advise, to discuss
- 1,017trifftmeets, hits
- 1,018morgentomorrow
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,014
- The most common German nouns#355
- German A2 vocabulary#246
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#125
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