die Pandemie
Meaning in English: pandemic
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Während der Pandemie haben wir von zu Hause gearbeitet.
During the pandemic we worked from home.
Der, die or das?
Pandemie is feminine: die Pandemie. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ie are die in 20 of 21 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Pandemie?
Pandemie is number 941 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 95 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% 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
- 937Sinnesense (im Sinne); senses
- 938Voraussetzungenrequirements, prerequisites
- 939der Unfallaccident
- 940sorgtensures, provides; takes care
- 941die Pandemiepandemic
- 942verwendenuse
- 943das Mädchengirl
- 944laufenrun, walk
- 945passierthappened; happens
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#941
- The 5,000 most common German words#941
- The most common German nouns#322
- German B2 vocabulary#106
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#110
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.