der Zweck
Meaning in English: purpose
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Wozu dient das? Was ist der Zweck?
What is that for? What is the purpose?
Der, die or das?
Zweck is masculine: der Zweck. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Zweck in the top 5,000
These forms of Zweck are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Das Geld wird für gute Zwecke gesammelt.
The money is being collected for good causes.
How common is Zweck?
Zweck is number 1,471 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 63 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,467folgtfollows
- 1,468organisiertorganised, organises
- 1,469steigento rise, to climb, to get (in/on)
- 1,470teilnehmendenparticipating
- 1,471der Zweckpurpose
- 1,472das Rennenrace
- 1,473der Wechselchange, switch
- 1,474öffentlichpublic, publicly
- 1,475möglicherweisepossibly, perhaps
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,471
- The most common German nouns#555
- German B1 vocabulary#444
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#155
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.