der Ruhestand
Meaning in English: retirement
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Mein Vater ist seit März im Ruhestand.
My father has been retired since March.
Der, die or das?
Ruhestand is masculine: der Ruhestand. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Ruhestand?
Ruhestand is number 3,840 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 46,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Ruhestand is built from die Ruhe (quiet, peace, rest).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,836teilzunehmento take part (zu-infinitive)
- 3,837der Westwest
- 3,838deckento cover, to set (the table)
- 3,839mietento rent
- 3,840der Ruhestandretirement
- 3,841der Rufreputation, call
- 3,842die Missionmission
- 3,843Fortschritteprogress
- 3,844der Käuferbuyer, purchaser
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,840
- The most common German nouns#1,655
- German B2 vocabulary#854
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#423
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.