das Verständnis
Meaning in English: understanding, sympathy
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Vielen Dank für Ihr Verständnis.
Thank you for your understanding.
Der, die or das?
Verständnis is neuter: das Verständnis. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -nis are das in 7 of 8 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Verständnis?
Verständnis is number 1,464 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 63 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,460teilspartly
- 1,461wärenwould be, were
- 1,462der Künstlerartist
- 1,463der Angriffattack
- 1,464das Verständnisunderstanding, sympathy
- 1,465größerebigger, larger
- 1,466Entwicklungendevelopments
- 1,467folgtfollows
- 1,468organisiertorganised, organises
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,464
- The most common German nouns#553
- German B1 vocabulary#442
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#71
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.