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German noun, masculine · CEFR B2

der Vordergrund

Meaning in English: foreground

Rank 2,257 of 5,000noun · derLevel B2
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Example

Bei uns steht der Spaß im Vordergrund.

For us, having fun comes first.

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Vordergrund is masculine: der Vordergrund. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Vordergrund?

Vordergrund is number 2,257 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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. 2,253das Handwerkcraft, trade; skilled trades
  2. 2,254vorabin advance, beforehand
  3. 2,255schlägthits, beats; suggests (vor-)
  4. 2,256dauernto last, to take (time)
  5. 2,257der Vordergrundforeground
  6. 2,258rausout (colloquial)
  7. 2,259positivenpositive (inflected)
  8. 2,260Umständencircumstances (dative plural)
  9. 2,261der Musikermusician(s)

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