das Institut
Meaning in English: institute
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Sie arbeitet an einem Institut für Meeresforschung.
She works at an institute for marine research.
Der, die or das?
Institut is neuter: das Institut. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Institut in the top 5,000
These forms of Institut are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Sie ist Leiterin des Instituts für Geschichte.
She is head of the Institute of History.
Mehrere Institute haben die Studie durchgeführt.
Several institutes carried out the study.
How common is Institut?
Institut is number 1,438 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 64 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
- 1,434die Serieseries
- 1,435der Arztdoctor
- 1,436besserebetter
- 1,437das Vorjahrprevious year
- 1,438das Institutinstitute
- 1,439wolltenwanted
- 1,440zunehmendincreasingly
- 1,441findefind, think
- 1,442das Modellmodel
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,438
- The most common German nouns#543
- German B2 vocabulary#201
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#69
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.