German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Wirkung
Meaning in English: effect
Example
Die Tablette zeigt schon nach einer Stunde Wirkung.
The tablet takes effect after just an hour.
Der, die or das?
Wirkung is feminine: die Wirkung. 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 Wirkung?
Wirkung is number 1,348 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 68 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
- 1,344engnarrow, tight, close
- 1,345der Serviceservice
- 1,346entstandenarisen, created
- 1,347erlaubtallowed, permitted
- 1,348die Wirkungeffect
- 1,349längstlong ago, long since
- 1,350wirktworks, seems
- 1,351Ermittlungeninvestigations
- 1,352Nachrichtennews, messages
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,348
- The most common German nouns#494
- German B2 vocabulary#181
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#174
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.