die Promotion
Meaning in English: doctorate, PhD
False friend: Promotion is not “promotion”. It is a doctorate. A promotion at work is eine Beförderung. More false friends.
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Nach der Promotion will er in die Forschung gehen.
After his PhD he wants to go into research.
Der, die or das?
Promotion is feminine: die Promotion. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ion are die in 46 of 47 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Promotion?
Promotion is number 4,668 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 58,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,664wahrnehmento perceive; to keep (appointment)
- 4,665gewarntwarned
- 4,666die Wendeturn, turning point; reunification
- 4,667die Freundschaftfriendship
- 4,668die Promotiondoctorate, PhD
- 4,669früheearly
- 4,670BelarusBelarus
- 4,671absoluteabsolute
- 4,672fälligdue, payable
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,668
- The most common German nouns#2,043
- German C1 vocabulary#330
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#668
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.