die Infektion
Meaning in English: infection
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Gegen die Infektion bekam er Antibiotika.
He was given antibiotics for the infection.
Der, die or das?
Infektion is feminine: die Infektion. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ion are die in 46 of 47 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Infektion in the top 5,000
These forms of Infektion are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Im Winter gibt es mehr Infektionen.
There are more infections in winter.
How common is Infektion?
Infektion is number 3,340 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 39,000 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.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,336singento sing
- 3,337der Parkplatzparking space, car park
- 3,338nachgewiesenproven, detected
- 3,339führtenled, ran
- 3,340die Infektioninfection
- 3,341die Spendedonation
- 3,342Aufnahmenrecordings, photos, shots
- 3,343die Kommunemunicipality, local authority
- 3,344gewünschtendesired, requested
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,340
- The most common German nouns#1,413
- German B2 vocabulary#701
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#466
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.