die Mathematik
Meaning in English: mathematics
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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In Mathematik war ich nie besonders gut.
I was never particularly good at maths.
Der, die or das?
Mathematik is feminine: die Mathematik. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ik are die in 11 of 12 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Mathematik?
Mathematik is number 2,443 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 37 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,439Bestimmungenregulations, provisions
- 2,440verstehtunderstands
- 2,441kündigtequit, cancelled (past)
- 2,442lautetis, reads (e.g. a name)
- 2,443die Mathematikmathematics
- 2,444Erwachsenenadults
- 2,445die Justizjudiciary, justice system
- 2,446bezahltpaid
- 2,447finanziellfinancial, financially
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,443
- The most common German nouns#1,016
- German A2 vocabulary#555
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#332
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.