die Verantwortung
Meaning in English: responsibility
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Eltern tragen die Verantwortung für ihre Kinder.
Parents are responsible for their children.
Der, die or das?
Verantwortung is feminine: die Verantwortung. 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 Verantwortung?
Verantwortung is number 783 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 114 times per million words — about once every 8,800 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.
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In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#783
- The 5,000 most common German words#783
- The most common German nouns#249
- German B2 vocabulary#69
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#80
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.