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German noun, feminine · CEFR C1

Ermittlungen

Meaning in English: investigations

Rank 1,351 of 5,000nounLevel C1

This is a form of Ermittlung, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.

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Example

Die Polizei hat die Ermittlungen abgeschlossen.

The police have closed the investigation.

How common is Ermittlungen?

Ermittlungen is number 1,351 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 67 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. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 1,347erlaubtallowed, permitted
  2. 1,348die Wirkungeffect
  3. 1,349längstlong ago, long since
  4. 1,350wirktworks, seems
  5. 1,351Ermittlungeninvestigations
  6. 1,352Nachrichtennews, messages
  7. 1,353die Bandband (music), volume
  8. 1,354übernimmttakes over, takes on
  9. 1,355Wohnungenflats, apartments

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