German noun, masculine · CEFR A1

der Polizist

Meaning in English: police officer

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · derLevel A11 form in the top 5,000

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Jobs in German list.

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Example

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:

Polizisten#1,698
police officersA2

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.

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