German noun, feminine · CEFR A2

die Kollegin

Meaning in English: (female) colleague

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · dieLevel 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

Meine Kollegin hilft mir immer gern.

My colleague is always happy to help me.

Der, die or das?

Kollegin is feminine: die Kollegin. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Kollegin in the top 5,000

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

Kolleginnen#3,020
(female) colleaguesA2

Mit meinen Kolleginnen gehe ich mittags essen.
I go out for lunch with my colleagues.

How common is Kollegin?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Kollegin appears 12 times per million words — about once every 80,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form Kolleginnen (#3,020) is in the top 5,000, though.

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

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