das Verhältnis
Meaning in English: relationship; ratio, proportion
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Sie hat ein gutes Verhältnis zu ihren Eltern.
She has a good relationship with her parents.
Der, die or das?
Verhältnis is neuter: das Verhältnis. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -nis are das in 7 of 8 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Verhältnis?
Verhältnis is number 2,216 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 41 times per million words — about once every 24,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,212der Seelake (der); sea (die)
- 2,213Studiumsof (one's) studies (genitive)
- 2,214der Zweifeldoubt(s)
- 2,215ländlichenrural (inflected)
- 2,216das Verhältnisrelationship; ratio, proportion
- 2,217der Betreiberoperator(s)
- 2,218gewinntwins, gains
- 2,219Männernmen (dative plural)
- 2,220beantragento apply for
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,216
- The most common German nouns#913
- German B2 vocabulary#375
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#114
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.