das Gebiet
Meaning in English: area, region, field
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In diesem Gebiet gibt es kaum Handyempfang.
There's hardly any mobile signal in this area.
Der, die or das?
Gebiet is neuter: das Gebiet. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Gebiet in the top 5,000
These forms of Gebiet are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In ländlichen Gebieten fährt selten ein Bus.
In rural areas buses are rare.
Manche Gebiete sind nur mit dem Boot erreichbar.
Some areas can only be reached by boat.
How common is Gebiet?
Gebiet is number 1,387 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 66 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. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Gebiet:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,383die Sachething, matter
- 1,384bundesweitnationwide
- 1,385die Heimathome, homeland
- 1,386sichernto secure, to back up
- 1,387das Gebietarea, region, field
- 1,388entdeckento discover
- 1,389sinnvollsensible, useful, meaningful
- 1,390Unternehmensof the company (genitive)
- 1,391die Industrieindustry
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,387
- The most common German nouns#515
- German B1 vocabulary#418
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#63
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.