der Gottesdienst
Meaning in English: church service
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Am Sonntag gehen wir in den Gottesdienst.
On Sunday we go to church.
Der, die or das?
Gottesdienst is masculine: der Gottesdienst. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Gottesdienst?
Gottesdienst is number 4,574 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 57,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Gottesdienst is built from der Gott (God, god) + der Dienst (service, duty, shift).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,570umgekehrtthe other way round, vice versa
- 4,571nutzbarusable
- 4,572verkündetannounced, proclaimed
- 4,573der Außenministerforeign minister
- 4,574der Gottesdienstchurch service
- 4,575musikalischenmusical
- 4,576unterrichtento teach
- 4,577zweierof two (genitive)
- 4,578Müttermothers
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,574
- The most common German nouns#1,995
- German B1 vocabulary#1,488
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#500
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.