die Union
Meaning in English: union
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Die Europäische Union hat siebenundzwanzig Mitglieder.
The European Union has twenty-seven members.
Der, die or das?
Union is feminine: die Union. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ion are die in 46 of 47 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Union?
Union is number 770 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 116 times per million words — about once every 8,600 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% 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
- 766seineshis, its (genitive)
- 767informiertinformed; informs
- 768Zeitentimes
- 769der Spielerplayer(s)
- 770die Unionunion
- 771die Gewaltviolence, force
- 772der Zugangaccess, entrance
- 773beginntbegins, starts
- 774der Marktmarket
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#770
- The 5,000 most common German words#770
- The most common German nouns#243
- German B2 vocabulary#64
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#77
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.