German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Verlauf
Meaning in English: course, progress; history
Example
Im Verlauf des Abends wurde es lustiger.
In the course of the evening it got more fun.
Der, die or das?
Verlauf is masculine: der Verlauf. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Verlauf?
Verlauf is number 2,033 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 45 times per million words — about once every 22,000 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
- 2,029Partnernpartners (dative plural)
- 2,030fordertedemanded, called for (past)
- 2,031das Parlamentparliament
- 2,032der Campuscampus
- 2,033der Verlaufcourse, progress; history
- 2,034Bücherbooks
- 2,035die Sanierungrenovation, refurbishment
- 2,036sozialessocial (inflected)
- 2,037gesellschaftlichensocial, societal (inflected)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,033
- The most common German nouns#821
- German B2 vocabulary#323
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#219
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.