die Informatik
Meaning in English: computer science
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Mein Bruder studiert Informatik in München.
My brother studies computer science in Munich.
Der, die or das?
Informatik is feminine: die Informatik. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ik are die in 11 of 12 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Informatik?
Informatik is number 2,268 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,264die Orientierungorientation, guidance
- 2,265überzeugento convince, to persuade
- 2,266die Verordnungregulation, ordinance; prescription
- 2,267das Einkommenincome
- 2,268die Informatikcomputer science
- 2,269die Hautskin
- 2,270höchstehighest, top (inflected)
- 2,271getötetkilled
- 2,272überraschendsurprising, unexpectedly
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,268
- The most common German nouns#938
- German B1 vocabulary#726
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#307
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.