die Abteilung
Meaning in English: department
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In welcher Abteilung arbeitest du?
Which department do you work in?
Der, die or das?
Abteilung is feminine: die Abteilung. 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 Abteilung in the top 5,000
These forms of Abteilung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Firma hat drei Abteilungen in diesem Gebäude.
The company has three departments in this building.
How common is Abteilung?
Abteilung is number 2,387 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 38 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,383gesundhealthy
- 2,384nachhaltigensustainable (inflected)
- 2,385gesetzlichlegal, statutory
- 2,386der Schnittcut; average (im Schnitt)
- 2,387die Abteilungdepartment
- 2,388produziertproduced
- 2,389besitzento own, to possess
- 2,390direktendirect (inflected)
- 2,391übrigenremaining, other; (im Übrigen) besides
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,387
- The most common German nouns#991
- German B1 vocabulary#768
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#323
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.