German noun, feminine · CEFR B2

die Lehrkraft

Meaning in English: teacher (formal)

Rank 3,826 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B23 forms in the list
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Example

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:

Lehrkräfte#1,150
teachersB2

An unserer Schule fehlen mehrere Lehrkräfte.
Our school is short of several teachers.

Lehrkräften#3,403
teachers (dative pl.)B2

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

  1. 3,822das Bierbeer
  2. 3,823echtreal, genuine, really
  3. 3,824tausendthousand
  4. 3,825kommunizierento communicate
  5. 3,826die Lehrkraftteacher (formal)
  6. 3,827qualifiziertequalified
  7. 3,828der Charaktercharacter, personality
  8. 3,829das Detaildetail
  9. 3,830ÖsterreichsAustria's, of Austria

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