die Verteidigung
Meaning in English: defence
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Unsere Verteidigung war heute zu langsam.
Our defence was too slow today.
Der, die or das?
Verteidigung is feminine: die Verteidigung. 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 Verteidigung?
Verteidigung is number 4,411 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 54,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,407trockendry
- 4,408oberstetop, highest, supreme
- 4,409der JännerJanuary (Austrian)
- 4,410stattgefundentaken place
- 4,411die Verteidigungdefence
- 4,412die Entstehungorigin, formation, emergence
- 4,413jährlicheannual, yearly
- 4,414die Ferienholidays, vacation
- 4,415schlichtsimple, plain; simply
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,411
- The most common German nouns#1,920
- German B2 vocabulary#1,056
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#625
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.