die Verpflichtung
Meaning in English: obligation, commitment
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Ich habe keine Verpflichtung, dort zu bleiben.
I have no obligation to stay there.
Der, die or das?
Verpflichtung is feminine: die Verpflichtung. 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 Verpflichtung?
Verpflichtung is number 2,806 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 32 times per million words — about once every 32,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,802meintesaid, meant, thought (past)
- 2,803verliertloses
- 2,804die Erfüllungfulfilment
- 2,805rechnetcalculates; expects (mit)
- 2,806die Verpflichtungobligation, commitment
- 2,807verbringenspend (time)
- 2,808der Ausgleichbalance, compensation; equaliser
- 2,809Servicesservices
- 2,810tratstepped, kicked (past)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,806
- The most common German nouns#1,177
- German C1 vocabulary#119
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#393
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.