German noun, feminine · CEFR B1

die Zahlung

Meaning in English: payment

Rank 3,238 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B12 forms in the list
Learn this word

Add die Zahlung and its 1 form to your reviews. Progress stays in this browser.

Test my vocabulary

Example

Die Zahlung ist bis Freitag fällig.

Payment is due by Friday.

Der, die or das?

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

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

Zahlungen#4,515
paymentsB1

Alle Zahlungen laufen über dieses Konto.
All payments go through this account.

How common is Zahlung?

Zahlung is number 3,238 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 26 times per million words — about once every 38,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,234die Anpassungadjustment, adaptation
  2. 3,235selbensame
  3. 3,236Kategoriencategories
  4. 3,237die Schuldfault, guilt; debt
  5. 3,238die Zahlungpayment
  6. 3,239das Gemüsevegetables
  7. 3,240durftenwere allowed to
  8. 3,241vollefull
  9. 3,242zusammengefasstsummarised

In these word lists

Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.