die Verwendung
Meaning in English: use, usage
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Für alte Möbel habe ich keine Verwendung mehr.
I have no use for old furniture any more.
Der, die or das?
Verwendung is feminine: die Verwendung. 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 Verwendung?
Verwendung is number 1,073 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 84 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% 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
- 1,069gerngladly, like to
- 1,070die Anzahlnumber, quantity
- 1,071solchensuch (inflected)
- 1,072Rechterights
- 1,073die Verwendunguse, usage
- 1,074Fotosphotos
- 1,075der Zeitraumperiod (of time)
- 1,076der Körperbody
- 1,077das Konzeptconcept, plan
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,073
- The most common German nouns#373
- German B2 vocabulary#126
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#130
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.