die Version
Meaning in English: version
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Lade dir die neueste Version herunter.
Download the latest version.
Der, die or das?
Version is feminine: die Version. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ion are die in 46 of 47 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Version?
Version is number 1,607 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 57 times per million words — about once every 17,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,603standenstood
- 1,604einsone
- 1,605unmittelbarimmediate(ly), direct(ly)
- 1,606vergessento forget; forgotten
- 1,607die Versionversion
- 1,608rotenred
- 1,609speziellspecial(ly), specific(ally)
- 1,610Firmencompanies, firms
- 1,611die Positionposition
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,607
- The most common German nouns#620
- German B1 vocabulary#495
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#211
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.