German noun, feminine · CEFR A1

die Wohnung

Meaning in English: flat, apartment

Rank 596 of 5,000noun · dieLevel A12 forms in the list
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Example

Wir suchen eine Wohnung mit Balkon.

We're looking for a flat with a balcony.

Der, die or das?

Wohnung is feminine: die Wohnung. 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 Wohnung in the top 5,000

These forms of Wohnung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Wohnungen#1,355
flats, apartmentsA1

In der Stadt sind Wohnungen sehr teuer.
Flats are very expensive in the city.

How common is Wohnung?

Wohnung is number 596 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 149 times per million words — about once every 6,700 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 60% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 592mittlerweilemeanwhile, by now
  2. 593die Websitewebsite
  3. 594nimmttakes
  4. 595die Nachtnight
  5. 596die Wohnungflat, apartment
  6. 597linksleft, on the left
  7. 598weißknow(s); white
  8. 599die Umsetzungimplementation, realization
  9. 600sozialensocial

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