die Politik
Meaning in English: politics, policy
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Mein Vater interessiert sich sehr für Politik.
My father is very interested in politics.
Der, die or das?
Politik is feminine: die Politik. 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 Politik?
Politik is number 542 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 165 times per million words — about once every 6,100 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 59% 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
- 538die Saisonseason
- 539dennochnevertheless, still
- 540öffentlichenpublic
- 541damalsback then, at that time
- 542die Politikpolitics, policy
- 543Mitgliedermembers
- 544Seitenpages, sides
- 545die Lagesituation; location
- 546der Sommersummer
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#542
- The 5,000 most common German words#542
- The most common German nouns#133
- German A2 vocabulary#138
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#43
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.