German noun, neuter · CEFR B2

das Gesundheitswesen

Meaning in English: health care system

Rank 3,462 of 5,000noun · dasLevel B2
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Example

Im Gesundheitswesen fehlen viele Fachkräfte.

The health care system is short of many skilled workers.

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Gesundheitswesen is neuter: das Gesundheitswesen. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Gesundheitswesen?

Gesundheitswesen is number 3,462 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 41,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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. 3,458beschreibento describe
  2. 3,459bundesweitennationwide (across Germany)
  3. 3,460Abgeordnetenmembers of parliament, MPs
  4. 3,461betretento enter, to step onto
  5. 3,462das Gesundheitswesenhealth care system
  6. 3,463Fragestellungenquestions, issues (to investigate)
  7. 3,464die Übertragungbroadcast; transmission; transfer
  8. 3,465die Architekturarchitecture
  9. 3,466morgensin the morning(s)

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