die Klinik
Meaning in English: clinic, hospital
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Nach der Operation blieb er drei Tage in der Klinik.
After the operation he stayed in hospital for three days.
Der, die or das?
Klinik is feminine: die Klinik. 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.
Forms of Klinik in the top 5,000
These forms of Klinik are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In vielen Kliniken fehlt Personal.
Many hospitals are short-staffed.
How common is Klinik?
Klinik is number 1,676 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 55 times per million words — about once every 18,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 69% 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
- 1,672die Erklärungexplanation, statement
- 1,673verzichtento do without, to give up
- 1,674diskutiertdiscussed
- 1,675Fallecase (im Falle: in case of); trap
- 1,676die Klinikclinic, hospital
- 1,677die Zustimmungapproval, consent
- 1,678die Verbesserungimprovement
- 1,679Spendendonations
- 1,680das Materialmaterial
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,676
- The most common German nouns#659
- German B1 vocabulary#525
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#228
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.