die Vorbereitung
Meaning in English: preparation
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Die Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung dauert Wochen.
Preparing for the exam takes weeks.
Der, die or das?
Vorbereitung is feminine: die Vorbereitung. 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 Vorbereitung?
Vorbereitung is number 1,431 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 64 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.
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In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,431
- The most common German nouns#538
- German B1 vocabulary#434
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#190
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.