das Praktikum
Meaning in English: internship, work placement
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Im Sommer mache ich ein Praktikum bei einer Bank.
In the summer I'm doing an internship at a bank.
Der, die or das?
Praktikum is neuter: das Praktikum. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -um are das in 17 of 24 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Praktikum in the top 5,000
These forms of Praktikum are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Während des Studiums habe ich drei Praktika gemacht.
I did three internships while I was at university.
How common is Praktikum?
Praktikum is number 3,393 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 25 times per million words — about once every 40,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,389hochwertigehigh-quality
- 3,390das Vermögenfortune, wealth, assets
- 3,391Championschampions (as in Champions League)
- 3,392Aktivistenactivists
- 3,393das Praktikuminternship, work placement
- 3,394totdead
- 3,395begründetjustified, gave reasons for; founded
- 3,396geeignetensuitable, appropriate
- 3,397Strategienstrategies
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,393
- The most common German nouns#1,436
- German A2 vocabulary#723
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#178
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.