die Demokratie
Meaning in English: democracy
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In einer Demokratie darf jeder seine Meinung sagen.
In a democracy everyone may say what they think.
Der, die or das?
Demokratie is feminine: die Demokratie. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ie are die in 20 of 21 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Demokratie?
Demokratie is number 1,334 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 68 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
- 1,330zuhauseat home
- 1,331wohnento live, to reside
- 1,332bezeichnetcalled, described
- 1,333Änderungenchanges
- 1,334die Demokratiedemocracy
- 1,335offenenopen
- 1,336erklärento explain, to declare
- 1,337begonnenbegun, started
- 1,338bauento build
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,334
- The most common German nouns#489
- German B1 vocabulary#401
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#172
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.