die Bildung
Meaning in English: education; formation
Example
Gute Bildung sollte für alle kostenlos sein.
A good education should be free for everyone.
Der, die or das?
Bildung is feminine: die Bildung. 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 Bildung?
Bildung is number 438 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 200 times per million words — about once every 5,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Bildung:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 434die Gesellschaftsociety; company
- 435jedeevery, each (feminine)
- 436beideboth
- 437der JuliJuly
- 438die Bildungeducation; formation
- 439die Höheheight; level, amount
- 440verschiedenevarious, different
- 441der JanuarJanuary
- 442bringento bring, to take
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#438
- The 1,000 most common German words#438
- The 5,000 most common German words#438
- The most common German nouns#92
- German B1 vocabulary#75
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#29
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.