German noun, masculine · CEFR A2

der Unterschied

Meaning in English: difference

Rank 2,077 of 5,000noun · derLevel A22 forms in the list
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Example

Siehst du einen Unterschied zwischen den Fotos?

Can you see a difference between the photos?

Der, die or das?

Unterschied is masculine: der Unterschied. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Unterschied in the top 5,000

These forms of Unterschied are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Unterschiede#2,535
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Die Unterschiede sind kaum zu sehen.
The differences are hardly visible.

How common is Unterschied?

Unterschied is number 2,077 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 44 times per million words — about once every 23,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,073die Therapietherapy, treatment
  2. 2,074gelangsucceeded, managed (past)
  3. 2,075der Wandelchange, transformation
  4. 2,076die Krankheitillness, disease
  5. 2,077der Unterschieddifference
  6. 2,078der Nachweisproof, evidence, certificate
  7. 2,079viertenfourth (inflected)
  8. 2,080Beziehungenrelationships, relations
  9. 2,081der Freundfriend, boyfriend

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