German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Medizin
Meaning in English: medicine
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Er studiert im dritten Semester Medizin.
He is in his third semester of medicine.
Der, die or das?
Medizin is feminine: die Medizin. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Medizin?
Medizin is number 2,146 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 42 times per million words — about once every 24,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 2,142erstesfirst (inflected)
- 2,143erwerbento acquire, to purchase
- 2,144beziehento refer to; to receive; to move into
- 2,145dargestelltshown, depicted, portrayed
- 2,146die Medizinmedicine
- 2,147interessiertinterested; interests
- 2,148die Kategoriecategory
- 2,149danebennext to it, beside it; besides
- 2,150der Trefferhit, goal; search result
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,146
- The most common German nouns#876
- German A2 vocabulary#496
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#290
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.