German noun, feminine · CEFR B2

die Branche

Meaning in English: industry, sector

Rank 1,696 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B22 forms in the list
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Example

In welcher Branche arbeitest du?

Which industry do you work in?

Der, die or das?

Branche is feminine: die Branche. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Branche in the top 5,000

These forms of Branche are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Branchen#2,626
industries, sectorsB2

In vielen Branchen fehlen Fachkräfte.
Many industries are short of skilled workers.

How common is Branche?

Branche is number 1,696 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 54 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 1,692Lebensof life (genitive)
  2. 1,693präsentierento present
  3. 1,694leichtereasier, lighter
  4. 1,695der Zuschauerspectator(s), viewer(s)
  5. 1,696die Brancheindustry, sector
  6. 1,697ukrainischenUkrainian
  7. 1,698Polizistenpolice officers
  8. 1,699voraussichtlichexpected, probably
  9. 1,700besuchtvisited, attends

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