die Literatur
Meaning in English: literature
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Sie studiert deutsche Literatur in Heidelberg.
She studies German literature in Heidelberg.
Der, die or das?
Literatur is feminine: die Literatur. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ur are die in 12 of 14 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Literatur?
Literatur is number 3,005 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 29 times per million words — about once every 35,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,001begeisternto inspire, to thrill
- 3,002derweilmeanwhile
- 3,003ausgebautexpanded, extended
- 3,004eingebundeninvolved, integrated
- 3,005die Literaturliterature
- 3,006das Virusvirus
- 3,007begegnento meet, to encounter
- 3,008absolviertcompleted
- 3,009innereninner, internal
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,005
- The most common German nouns#1,273
- German B1 vocabulary#970
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#429
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.