die Pflicht
Meaning in English: duty, obligation
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Im Bus ist die Maske keine Pflicht mehr.
Masks are no longer compulsory on the bus.
Der, die or das?
Pflicht is feminine: die Pflicht. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Pflicht in the top 5,000
These forms of Pflicht are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Als Mieter hat man Rechte und Pflichten.
As a tenant you have rights and obligations.
How common is Pflicht?
Pflicht is number 2,056 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 44 times per million words — about once every 23,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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 Pflicht:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,052vielmehrrather, on the contrary
- 2,053die Mobilitätmobility
- 2,054verschiedener(of) various, different (inflected)
- 2,055der Sinnsense, meaning
- 2,056die Pflichtduty, obligation
- 2,057geschütztprotected
- 2,058das Fachsubject; compartment; field
- 2,059die Anerkennungrecognition, appreciation
- 2,060geändertchanged
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,056
- The most common German nouns#834
- German B1 vocabulary#661
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#274
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.