die Lehrkraft
Meaning in English: teacher (formal)
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Jede Lehrkraft hat eine eigene Sprechstunde.
Every teacher has their own office hours.
Der, die or das?
Lehrkraft is feminine: die Lehrkraft. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Lehrkraft in the top 5,000
These forms of Lehrkraft are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
An unserer Schule fehlen mehrere Lehrkräfte.
Our school is short of several teachers.
Mit den Lehrkräften sprechen wir einmal im Jahr.
We talk to the teachers once a year.
How common is Lehrkraft?
Lehrkraft is number 3,826 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 46,000 words. Its most frequent form is Lehrkräfte (#1,150).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,822das Bierbeer
- 3,823echtreal, genuine, really
- 3,824tausendthousand
- 3,825kommunizierento communicate
- 3,826die Lehrkraftteacher (formal)
- 3,827qualifiziertequalified
- 3,828der Charaktercharacter, personality
- 3,829das Detaildetail
- 3,830ÖsterreichsAustria's, of Austria
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,826
- The most common German nouns#1,646
- German B2 vocabulary#851
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#531
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.