die Dokumentation
Meaning in English: documentary; documentation
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Gestern habe ich eine Dokumentation über Wale gesehen.
Yesterday I watched a documentary about whales.
Der, die or das?
Dokumentation is feminine: die Dokumentation. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ion are die in 46 of 47 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Dokumentation?
Dokumentation is number 2,840 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 31 times per million words — about once every 32,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,836Smartphonessmartphones
- 2,837der Bruderbrother
- 2,838das Gewichtweight
- 2,839die Einstellungattitude; setting; hiring
- 2,840die Dokumentationdocumentary; documentation
- 2,841geschiehthappens
- 2,842Positionenpositions
- 2,843die Kompetenzcompetence, expertise
- 2,844britischenBritish
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,840
- The most common German nouns#1,195
- German B2 vocabulary#554
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#397
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.