German noun, neuter · CEFR C1
das Vorfeld
Meaning in English: run-up (im Vorfeld: beforehand)
Example
Im Vorfeld der Hochzeit gab es viel Stress.
There was a lot of stress in the run-up to the wedding.
Der, die or das?
Vorfeld is neuter: das Vorfeld. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Vorfeld?
Vorfeld is number 1,847 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 50 times per million words — about once every 20,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Related words in the list
Vorfeld is built from das Feld (field).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,843nenntcalls, names
- 1,844einschließlichincluding
- 1,845steuernto steer, to control
- 1,846wünsche(I) wish
- 1,847das Vorfeldrun-up (im Vorfeld: beforehand)
- 1,848schönebeautiful, nice
- 1,849Studienstudies
- 1,850stecktis (stuck) in, is behind
- 1,851Beschäftigteemployees
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,847
- The most common German nouns#731
- German C1 vocabulary#46
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#96
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