das Gymnasium
Meaning in English: grammar school, high school
False friend: Gymnasium is not “gymnasium”. It is the academic secondary school. A gym is ein Fitnessstudio or eine Turnhalle. More false friends.
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Nach der Grundschule geht sie aufs Gymnasium.
After primary school she's going to grammar school.
Der, die or das?
Gymnasium is neuter: das Gymnasium. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -um are das in 17 of 24 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Gymnasium in the top 5,000
These forms of Gymnasium are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Schüler des Gymnasiums machen einen Ausflug.
The grammar school pupils are going on a trip.
How common is Gymnasium?
Gymnasium is number 1,393 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. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,389sinnvollsensible, useful, meaningful
- 1,390Unternehmensof the company (genitive)
- 1,391die Industrieindustry
- 1,392das Anliegenconcern, request
- 1,393das Gymnasiumgrammar school, high school
- 1,394sobaldas soon as
- 1,395entsprichtcorresponds to, matches
- 1,396verfügthas, possesses
- 1,397ausgezeichnetexcellent; awarded
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,393
- The most common German nouns#519
- German A2 vocabulary#325
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#65
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.