die Verfassung
Meaning in English: constitution, condition
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Er ist heute in guter Verfassung.
He's in good shape today.
Der, die or das?
Verfassung is feminine: die Verfassung. 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 Verfassung?
Verfassung is number 4,262 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,258TschechienCzech Republic, Czechia
- 4,259versicherteassured, insured
- 4,260aktiviertactivated
- 4,261einkaufento shop, to go shopping
- 4,262die Verfassungconstitution, condition
- 4,263vermiedenavoided
- 4,264die Waregoods, merchandise
- 4,265die Wandwall
- 4,266aufzubauento build up, to set up (zu-inf.)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,262
- The most common German nouns#1,850
- German B2 vocabulary#1,005
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#595
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.