die Fortbildung
Meaning in English: further training, course
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Nächste Woche habe ich eine Fortbildung.
Next week I have a training course.
Der, die or das?
Fortbildung is feminine: die Fortbildung. 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.
Forms of Fortbildung in the top 5,000
These forms of Fortbildung are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Firma bezahlt regelmäßig Fortbildungen.
The company regularly pays for training courses.
How common is Fortbildung?
Fortbildung is number 2,778 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 32 times per million words — about once every 31,000 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.
Related words in the list
Fortbildung is built from fort (away, gone; onward) + die Bildung (education; formation).
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,778
- The most common German nouns#1,163
- German B2 vocabulary#537
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#386
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.