die Wahl
Meaning in English: choice; election
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Test my vocabularyExample
Du hast die Wahl: Pizza oder Pasta.
You have the choice: pizza or pasta.
Der, die or das?
Wahl is feminine: die Wahl. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Wahl in the top 5,000
These forms of Wahl are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Im Herbst finden wieder Wahlen statt.
There will be elections again in autumn.
How common is Wahl?
Wahl is number 605 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 147 times per million words — about once every 6,800 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 60% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Wahl:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 601Veranstaltungenevents
- 602hohehigh
- 603siebenseven
- 604inzwischenmeanwhile, by now
- 605die Wahlchoice; election
- 606der Vereinclub, association
- 607berichtetreported; reports
- 608die Veranstaltungevent
- 609digitalendigital
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#605
- The 5,000 most common German words#605
- The most common German nouns#158
- German B1 vocabulary#131
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#54
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.