die Gewerkschaft
Meaning in English: trade union
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Die Gewerkschaft fordert mehr Lohn.
The union is demanding higher pay.
Der, die or das?
Gewerkschaft is feminine: die Gewerkschaft. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -schaft are die in 19 of 19 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Gewerkschaft in the top 5,000
These forms of Gewerkschaft are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Gewerkschaften fordern mehr Lohn.
The unions are demanding higher wages.
How common is Gewerkschaft?
Gewerkschaft is number 3,079 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 28 times per million words — about once every 36,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
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In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,079
- The most common German nouns#1,297
- German B2 vocabulary#624
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#437
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.