die Vorstellung
Meaning in English: idea, notion; performance; introduction
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Hast du eine Vorstellung, wie teuer das wird?
Do you have any idea how expensive that will be?
Der, die or das?
Vorstellung is feminine: die Vorstellung. 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 Vorstellung in the top 5,000
These forms of Vorstellung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Wir haben ganz unterschiedliche Vorstellungen vom Urlaub.
We have completely different ideas about holidays.
How common is Vorstellung?
Vorstellung is number 2,304 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 39 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. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Vorstellung is built from die Stellung (position, stance).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,300älterenolder, elderly (inflected)
- 2,301überprüfento check, to verify
- 2,302besitztowns, possesses
- 2,303aufnehmento record; to take in, to admit
- 2,304die Vorstellungidea, notion; performance; introduction
- 2,305stiegclimbed, rose; got (on/off)
- 2,306der Beschlussdecision, resolution
- 2,307erarbeitetworked out, developed
- 2,308kostenfreifree of charge
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,304
- The most common German nouns#952
- German B1 vocabulary#739
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#312
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.