German noun, masculine · CEFR A2

der Journalist

Meaning in English: journalist

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · derLevel A21 form in the top 5,000

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Jobs in German list.

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Example

Der Journalist hat den Minister interviewt.

The journalist interviewed the minister.

Der, die or das?

Journalist is masculine: der Journalist. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Journalist in the top 5,000

Journalist itself is not in the top 5,000, but this form of it is:

Journalisten#2,910
journalistsB1

Vor dem Gebäude warteten viele Journalisten.
Lots of journalists were waiting outside the building.

How common is Journalist?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Journalist appears 12 times per million words — about once every 85,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form Journalisten (#2,910) is in the top 5,000, though.

A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

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