die Vergangenheit
Meaning in English: past
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Er spricht nicht gern über seine Vergangenheit.
He doesn't like talking about his past.
Der, die or das?
Vergangenheit is feminine: die Vergangenheit. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -heit are die in 11 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Vergangenheit?
Vergangenheit is number 1,171 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 77 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,167versuchento try
- 1,168bliebstayed, remained
- 1,169das Wortword
- 1,170berichtetereported
- 1,171die Vergangenheitpast
- 1,172russischeRussian
- 1,173positivpositive
- 1,174Interesseninterests
- 1,175ziehtpulls, moves
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,171
- The most common German nouns#420
- German B1 vocabulary#338
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#145
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.