die Vertretung
Meaning in English: substitute, representation
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Heute haben wir in Mathe eine Vertretung.
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Der, die or das?
Vertretung is feminine: die Vertretung. 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 Vertretung?
Vertretung is number 4,955 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 63,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 79% 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
- 4,951trennento separate; to split up
- 4,952die Beschwerdecomplaint
- 4,953Kreisescircle, district (genitive)
- 4,954unabhängigenindependent
- 4,955die Vertretungsubstitute, representation
- 4,956einstimmigunanimous(ly)
- 4,957Versicherteninsured persons, policyholders
- 4,958zurückzuführenattributable, due (zurückführen auf)
- 4,959dualendual (e.g. work-study)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,955
- The most common German nouns#2,179
- German B1 vocabulary#1,601
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#704
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.