der Polizist
Meaning in English: police officer
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Jobs in German list.
Add der Polizist and its 1 form to your reviews. Progress stays in this browser.
Test my vocabularyExample
Ein Polizist hat uns den Weg gezeigt.
A police officer showed us the way.
Der, die or das?
Polizist is masculine: der Polizist. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Polizist in the top 5,000
Polizist itself is not in the top 5,000, but this form of it is:
Zwei Polizisten haben uns den Weg gezeigt.
Two police officers showed us the way.
How common is Polizist?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Polizist appears 11 times per million words — about once every 88,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form Polizisten (#1,698) is in the top 5,000, though.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Jobs: more words
- der Berufprofession, job
- die Arbeitwork, job
- der Jobjob
- der Lehrerteacher
- die Lehrerin(female) teacher
- der Arztdoctor
- die Ärztin(female) doctor
- der Pfleger(male) nurse, carer
- der Kochcook, chef
- der Kellnerwaiter
- der Verkäuferseller, salesperson
- die Verkäuferin(female) shop assistant
- der Ingenieurengineer
- der Anwaltlawyer
- der Journalistjournalist
- der Landwirtfarmer
In these word lists
- Jobs in German30 words
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.