der Rettungsdienst
Meaning in English: ambulance service, EMS
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Der Rettungsdienst war nach fünf Minuten da.
The ambulance was there within five minutes.
Der, die or das?
Rettungsdienst is masculine: der Rettungsdienst. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Rettungsdienst?
Rettungsdienst is number 4,232 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Rettungsdienst is built from die Rettung (rescue, salvation) + der Dienst (service, duty, shift).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,228Filmenfilms (dative)
- 4,229der Tipptip, hint
- 4,230regionalregional, locally
- 4,231der Effekteffect
- 4,232der Rettungsdienstambulance service, EMS
- 4,233habhave (I, colloquial)
- 4,234verschaffento get, to obtain, to provide
- 4,235die Feiercelebration, party
- 4,236die Optimierungoptimisation, improvement
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,232
- The most common German nouns#1,835
- German B2 vocabulary#994
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#469
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.