das Bundesland
Meaning in English: federal state
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Bayern ist das größte Bundesland.
Bavaria is the largest federal state.
Der, die or das?
Bundesland is neuter: das Bundesland. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Bundesland in the top 5,000
These forms of Bundesland are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Ferien sind in allen Bundesländern unterschiedlich.
School holidays differ in every federal state.
Deutschland hat sechzehn Bundesländer.
Germany has sixteen federal states.
How common is Bundesland?
Bundesland is number 2,516 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 36 times per million words — about once every 28,000 words. Its most frequent form is Bundesländern (#2,162).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Bundesland is built from der Bund (federal government; union; bunch) + das Land (country; land; countryside).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,512die Einschätzungassessment, estimate
- 2,513beobachtenobserve, watch
- 2,514Bildernpictures (dative plural)
- 2,515pädagogischeneducational, pedagogical
- 2,516das Bundeslandfederal state
- 2,517werfenthrow
- 2,518die Eintrachtharmony, unity
- 2,519der Auftaktstart, kick-off
- 2,520Konzepteconcepts, plans
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,516
- The most common German nouns#1,046
- German B1 vocabulary#813
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#130
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.