die Richtlinie
Meaning in English: guideline, directive
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Diese Richtlinie gilt für alle Abteilungen.
This guideline applies to all departments.
Der, die or das?
Richtlinie is feminine: die Richtlinie. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ie are die in 20 of 21 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Richtlinie in the top 5,000
These forms of Richtlinie are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Bitte halten Sie sich an die Richtlinien.
Please follow the guidelines.
How common is Richtlinie?
Richtlinie is number 3,606 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,602englischenEnglish
- 3,603der Direktordirector, head teacher
- 3,604das Signalsignal
- 3,605internationalerinternational
- 3,606die Richtlinieguideline, directive
- 3,607gelassencalm, relaxed, composed
- 3,608Jungsboys, guys (colloquial)
- 3,609geltendapplicable; (geltend machen) to claim
- 3,610das Kapitelchapter
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,606
- The most common German nouns#1,541
- German C1 vocabulary#201
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#505
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.