der Landkreis
Meaning in English: district, county
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Der Landkreis hat eine neue Buslinie eingerichtet.
The district has set up a new bus route.
Der, die or das?
Landkreis is masculine: der Landkreis. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Landkreis in the top 5,000
These forms of Landkreis are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Mehrere Landkreise haben die Schulen geschlossen.
Several districts have closed their schools.
Das Krankenhaus des Landkreises wird neu gebaut.
The district hospital is being rebuilt.
In einigen Landkreisen fahren kaum noch Busse.
In some districts hardly any buses run any more.
How common is Landkreis?
Landkreis is number 738 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 123 times per million words — about once every 8,200 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Landkreis is built from das Land (country; land; countryside) + der Kreis (circle; district).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 734letztelast
- 735der Anspruchclaim, entitlement
- 736der Teilnehmerparticipant(s)
- 737darunterunderneath; among them
- 738der Landkreisdistrict, county
- 739Bilderpictures
- 740erklärteexplained, declared
- 741mehrerenseveral (dative)
- 742die Suchesearch
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#738
- The 5,000 most common German words#738
- The most common German nouns#226
- German B2 vocabulary#57
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#61
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.