German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Vorfall
Meaning in English: incident
Example
Nach dem Vorfall hat die Schule die Eltern informiert.
After the incident the school informed the parents.
Der, die or das?
Vorfall is masculine: der Vorfall. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Vorfall?
Vorfall is number 2,368 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 38 times per million words — about once every 26,000 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.
Related words in the list
Vorfall is built from der Fall (case; fall).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,364die Vernetzungnetworking, (inter)connection
- 2,365löschento delete; to extinguish
- 2,366solchersuch (inflected)
- 2,367mache(I) make, do
- 2,368der Vorfallincident
- 2,369die Erstellungcreation, preparation
- 2,370umfassendecomprehensive, extensive (inflected)
- 2,371globalenglobal (inflected)
- 2,372das Gasgas
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,368
- The most common German nouns#984
- German B2 vocabulary#416
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#258
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