German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Zwiebel
Meaning in English: onion
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Food and drink in German list.
Example
Beim Schneiden der Zwiebel muss ich immer weinen.
Cutting onions always makes me cry.
Der, die or das?
Zwiebel is feminine: die Zwiebel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Zwiebel?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Zwiebel appears 2.0 times per million words — about once every 500,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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