German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Polizei
Meaning in English: police
Example
Wir sollten die Polizei rufen.
We should call the police.
Der, die or das?
Polizei is feminine: die Polizei. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ei are die in 5 of 5 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Polizei?
Polizei is number 180 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 478 times per million words — about once every 2,100 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 49% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#4
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