German noun, masculine · CEFR B2

der Verband

Meaning in English: association, federation, bandage

Rank 1,961 of 5,000noun · derLevel B23 forms in the list
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Example

Der Verband vertritt die Interessen der Bauern.

The association represents the farmers' interests.

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

Forms of Verband in the top 5,000

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

Verbände#3,554
associations; bandagesC1

Mehrere Verbände kritisieren den neuen Plan.
Several associations are criticising the new plan.

Verbänden#4,865
associations (dative plural)C1

Die Regierung spricht mit den Verbänden der Ärzte.
The government is talking to the doctors' associations.

How common is Verband?

Verband is number 1,961 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 47 times per million words — about once every 21,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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

  1. 1,957der Anlassoccasion, reason, cause
  2. 1,958der Landtagstate parliament
  3. 1,959rückento move, to shift
  4. 1,960zweimaltwice
  5. 1,961der Verbandassociation, federation, bandage
  6. 1,962ohnehinanyway, in any case
  7. 1,963reagierento react, to respond
  8. 1,964hoherhigh (inflected)
  9. 1,965trafmet, hit (past)

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