das Abitur
Meaning in English: school-leaving exam (A levels)
Example
Meine Schwester macht nächstes Jahr Abitur.
My sister is taking her final school exams next year.
Der, die or das?
Abitur is neuter: das Abitur. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -ur are usually die (12 of 14 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Abitur?
Abitur is number 3,072 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 28 times per million words — about once every 35,000 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
- 3,068das Bündnisalliance
- 3,069normalnormal, usual
- 3,070der Leserreader(s)
- 3,071hängento hang
- 3,072das Abiturschool-leaving exam (A levels)
- 3,073fliegento fly
- 3,074solltestshould (you, informal)
- 3,075mitgeteiltinformed, communicated
- 3,076getrenntseparated, separately
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,072
- The most common German nouns#1,296
- German B1 vocabulary#994
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#154
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.