German noun, feminine · CEFR B2

die Voraussetzung

Meaning in English: requirement, prerequisite

Rank 1,445 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B22 forms in the list
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Example

Gute Englischkenntnisse sind Voraussetzung für die Stelle.

Good English is a requirement for the job.

Der, die or das?

Voraussetzung is feminine: die Voraussetzung. 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.

Forms of Voraussetzung in the top 5,000

These forms of Voraussetzung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Voraussetzungen#938
requirements, prerequisitesB2

Welche Voraussetzungen muss ich für den Kurs erfüllen?
What requirements do I have to meet for the course?

How common is Voraussetzung?

Voraussetzung is number 1,445 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. Its most frequent form is Voraussetzungen (#938).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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. 1,441findefind, think
  2. 1,442das Modellmodel
  3. 1,443frühearly
  4. 1,444gefahrendriven, gone (by vehicle)
  5. 1,445die Voraussetzungrequirement, prerequisite
  6. 1,446übrigensby the way
  7. 1,447angekündigtannounced
  8. 1,448Fahrzeugevehicles
  9. 1,449der Testtest

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