German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Physik
Meaning in English: physics
Example
In Physik war ich nie besonders gut.
I was never particularly good at physics.
Der, die or das?
Physik is feminine: die Physik. 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 Physik?
Physik is number 3,910 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 47,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 3,906deutschlandweitnationwide (across Germany)
- 3,907zentralercentral, more central
- 3,908zukünftigenfuture
- 3,909längerenlonger, fairly long
- 3,910die Physikphysics
- 3,911geholtfetched, got
- 3,912die Einreiseentry (into a country)
- 3,913entscheidendendecisive, crucial
- 3,914der Reifentyre
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,910
- The most common German nouns#1,690
- German A2 vocabulary#817
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#540
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.