die Bundespolizei
Meaning in English: Federal Police
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Am Bahnhof kontrolliert heute die Bundespolizei.
The Federal Police are carrying out checks at the station today.
Der, die or das?
Bundespolizei is feminine: die Bundespolizei. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ei are die in 5 of 5 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Bundespolizei?
Bundespolizei is number 4,257 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Bundespolizei is built from der Bund (federal government; union; bunch) + die Polizei (police).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,253versichertinsured, assured
- 4,254fügteadded (fügte … hinzu)
- 4,255erhöhtenraised, increased
- 4,256die Communitycommunity (esp. online)
- 4,257die BundespolizeiFederal Police
- 4,258TschechienCzech Republic, Czechia
- 4,259versicherteassured, insured
- 4,260aktiviertactivated
- 4,261einkaufento shop, to go shopping
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,257
- The most common German nouns#1,848
- German B2 vocabulary#1,003
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#594
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.