die Kompetenz
Meaning in English: competence, expertise
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Sie hat viel Kompetenz im Bereich Finanzen.
She has a lot of expertise in finance.
Der, die or das?
Kompetenz is feminine: die Kompetenz. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -enz are die in 8 of 8 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Kompetenz in the top 5,000
These forms of Kompetenz are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In der Bewerbung beschreiben Sie Ihre Kompetenzen.
In the application you describe your skills.
How common is Kompetenz?
Kompetenz is number 2,843 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 31 times per million words — about once every 32,000 words. Its most frequent form is Kompetenzen (#1,340).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,839die Einstellungattitude; setting; hiring
- 2,840die Dokumentationdocumentary; documentation
- 2,841geschiehthappens
- 2,842Positionenpositions
- 2,843die Kompetenzcompetence, expertise
- 2,844britischenBritish
- 2,845der Podcastpodcast
- 2,846überraschtsurprised
- 2,847übergebenhand over; be sick (sich)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,843
- The most common German nouns#1,197
- German C1 vocabulary#124
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#398
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.