German noun, masculine · CEFR B1

der Patient

Meaning in English: patient

Rank 3,756 of 5,000noun · derLevel B12 forms in the list

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Example

Der Patient wartet schon seit einer Stunde.

The patient has been waiting for an hour.

Der, die or das?

Patient is masculine: der Patient. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Patient in the top 5,000

These forms of Patient are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Patienten#516
patients; patient (acc./dat.)B1

Die Ärztin hat heute sehr viele Patienten.
The doctor has a lot of patients today.

How common is Patient?

Patient is number 3,756 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 45,000 words. Its most frequent form is Patienten (#516).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.

Related words in the list

Words built on Patient:

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,752westlichenwestern
  2. 3,753ruhigquiet, calm
  3. 3,754äußerteexpressed, voiced
  4. 3,755der Zentimetercentimetre
  5. 3,756der Patientpatient
  6. 3,757Maßemeasurements, dimensions
  7. 3,758Kilometernkilometres (dative pl.)
  8. 3,759Modulemodules
  9. 3,760sportlichesporting, athletic, sporty

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