die Hochschule
Meaning in English: university, college
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Nach dem Abitur möchte sie an eine Hochschule.
After her A-levels she wants to go to university.
Der, die or das?
Hochschule is feminine: die Hochschule. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Hochschule in the top 5,000
These forms of Hochschule are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In unserer Stadt gibt es zwei Hochschulen.
There are two universities in our town.
How common is Hochschule?
Hochschule is number 395 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 225 times per million words — about once every 4,400 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 56% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Hochschule is built from hoch (high, tall) + die Schule (school).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 391gegenüberopposite; towards
- 392die Ausbildungtraining, apprenticeship; education
- 393gewesenbeen
- 394starkstrong; heavy
- 395die Hochschuleuniversity, college
- 396der SamstagSaturday
- 397eigeneown
- 398gehörtbelongs; heard
- 399die Regionregion
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#395
- The 1,000 most common German words#395
- The 5,000 most common German words#395
- The most common German nouns#76
- German B1 vocabulary#64
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#23
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.