German noun, feminine · CEFR A1
die Zeitung
Meaning in English: newspaper
Example
Mein Opa liest jeden Morgen die Zeitung.
My grandpa reads the newspaper every morning.
Der, die or das?
Zeitung is feminine: die Zeitung. 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 Zeitung?
Zeitung is number 1,081 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 84 times per million words — about once every 12,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% 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
- 1,077das Konzeptconcept, plan
- 1,078kostenlosfree (of charge)
- 1,079das Publikumaudience, public
- 1,080ändernto change
- 1,081die Zeitungnewspaper
- 1,082außerhalboutside (of)
- 1,083fallento fall, to drop
- 1,084der Vertragcontract
- 1,085der Vermieterlandlord
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,081
- The most common German nouns#379
- German A1 vocabulary#374
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#131
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.