die Verordnung
Meaning in English: regulation, ordinance; prescription
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Eine neue Verordnung regelt den Lärmschutz.
A new regulation governs noise protection.
Der, die or das?
Verordnung is feminine: die Verordnung. 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 Verordnung?
Verordnung is number 2,266 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,262beteiligento take part; to involve
- 2,263rotered (inflected)
- 2,264die Orientierungorientation, guidance
- 2,265überzeugento convince, to persuade
- 2,266die Verordnungregulation, ordinance; prescription
- 2,267das Einkommenincome
- 2,268die Informatikcomputer science
- 2,269die Hautskin
- 2,270höchstehighest, top (inflected)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,266
- The most common German nouns#936
- German C1 vocabulary#67
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#306
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.