das Wachstum
Meaning in English: growth
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Zu viel Sonne bremst das Wachstum der Pflanzen.
Too much sun slows the plants' growth.
Der, die or das?
Wachstum is neuter: das Wachstum. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -um are das in 17 of 24 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Wachstum?
Wachstum is number 2,176 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 42 times per million words — about once every 24,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 2,172Kriteriencriteria
- 2,173erzählento tell, to narrate
- 2,174engagierento get involved; to hire
- 2,175der Hunddog
- 2,176das Wachstumgrowth
- 2,177perfektperfect
- 2,178Freundenfriends (dative plural)
- 2,179aufgestelltset up, put up; drawn up
- 2,180Vorschriftenregulations, rules
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,176
- The most common German nouns#890
- German B2 vocabulary#364
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#111
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.