die Industrie
Meaning in English: industry
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Viele Menschen in der Region arbeiten in der Industrie.
Many people in the region work in industry.
Der, die or das?
Industrie is feminine: die Industrie. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ie are die in 20 of 21 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Industrie?
Industrie is number 1,391 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. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,387das Gebietarea, region, field
- 1,388entdeckento discover
- 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
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,391
- The most common German nouns#517
- German B1 vocabulary#422
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#183
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.