der Freistaat
Meaning in English: free state (Bavaria, Saxony…)
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Bayern nennt sich offiziell Freistaat.
Bavaria officially calls itself a free state.
Der, die or das?
Freistaat is masculine: der Freistaat. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -at are der in 8 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Freistaat in the top 5,000
These forms of Freistaat are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Dresden ist die Hauptstadt des Freistaates Sachsen.
Dresden is the capital of the Free State of Saxony.
How common is Freistaat?
Freistaat is number 1,306 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 70 times per million words — about once every 14,000 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.
Related words in the list
Freistaat is built from frei (free, vacant) + der Staat (state, country).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,302Freundefriends
- 1,303beschlossendecided, resolved
- 1,304möglichenpossible
- 1,305Entscheidungendecisions
- 1,306der Freistaatfree state (Bavaria, Saxony…)
- 1,307bestimmtcertainly, surely; certain
- 1,308gespeichertsaved, stored
- 1,309die Linieline, route
- 1,310der Schadendamage, harm
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,306
- The most common German nouns#475
- German C1 vocabulary#26
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#134
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.