German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Werbung
Meaning in English: advertising, advert
Example
Im Fernsehen läuft ständig Werbung.
There are adverts on TV all the time.
Der, die or das?
Werbung is feminine: die Werbung. 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.
How common is Werbung?
Werbung is number 1,710 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 53 times per million words — about once every 19,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,706einigesquite a lot, a few things
- 1,707herzlichwarm(ly), cordial(ly)
- 1,708kurzeshort, brief
- 1,709vergebento award, to forgive; awarded
- 1,710die Werbungadvertising, advert
- 1,711keinernobody, none
- 1,712die Grenzeborder, limit
- 1,713stolzproud
- 1,714aufmerksamattentive, alert
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,710
- The most common German nouns#676
- German A2 vocabulary#400
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#233
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.