die Infrastruktur
Meaning in English: infrastructure
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Auf dem Land fehlt oft die Infrastruktur.
Infrastructure is often lacking in the countryside.
Der, die or das?
Infrastruktur is feminine: die Infrastruktur. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ur are die in 12 of 14 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Infrastruktur?
Infrastruktur is number 1,491 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 62 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% 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
- 1,487frühenearly
- 1,488das Designdesign
- 1,489die Alternativealternative
- 1,490immerhinat least, after all
- 1,491die Infrastrukturinfrastructure
- 1,492die Unterlagendocuments, papers
- 1,493das Smartphonesmartphone
- 1,494der Handeltrade, retail
- 1,495der Aufbaustructure, setup, construction
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,491
- The most common German nouns#565
- German B2 vocabulary#215
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#198
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.