German noun, feminine · CEFR B2

die Forschung

Meaning in English: research

Rank 650 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B2
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Example

Meine Schwester arbeitet in der Forschung.

My sister works in research.

Der, die or das?

Forschung is feminine: die Forschung. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ung are die in 224 of 226 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Forschung?

Forschung is number 650 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 138 times per million words — about once every 7,300 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 61% 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

  1. 646tragencarry, wear
  2. 647trotzdemnevertheless, anyway
  3. 648altenold
  4. 649Männermen
  5. 650die Forschungresearch
  6. 651aktivactive(ly)
  7. 652ermöglichenenable, make possible
  8. 653erstmalsfor the first time
  9. 654erfolgreichsuccessful(ly)

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