die Verletzung
Meaning in English: injury; violation
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Wegen einer Verletzung kann er nicht spielen.
He can't play because of an injury.
Der, die or das?
Verletzung is feminine: die Verletzung. 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.
Forms of Verletzung in the top 5,000
These forms of Verletzung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Zum Glück hatte sie nur leichte Verletzungen.
Luckily she only had minor injuries.
How common is Verletzung?
Verletzung is number 3,286 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 26 times per million words — about once every 39,000 words. Its most frequent form is Verletzungen (#1,635).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Verletzung:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,282abgestimmtvoted; coordinated
- 3,283Monatsof the month (genitive)
- 3,284engagiertecommitted, dedicated
- 3,285der Entwicklerdeveloper
- 3,286die Verletzunginjury; violation
- 3,287die Verbreitungspread, distribution
- 3,288Ansätzeapproaches
- 3,289seithersince then
- 3,290das Landgerichtregional court
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,286
- The most common German nouns#1,388
- German B1 vocabulary#1,070
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#459
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