der Schwerpunkt
Meaning in English: focus, main emphasis
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Der Schwerpunkt des Kurses liegt auf dem Sprechen.
The course focuses mainly on speaking.
Der, die or das?
Schwerpunkt is masculine: der Schwerpunkt. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Schwerpunkt in the top 5,000
These forms of Schwerpunkt are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Was sind die Schwerpunkte in deinem Studium?
What are the main focuses of your degree?
How common is Schwerpunkt?
Schwerpunkt is number 1,220 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 75 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Schwerpunkt is built from schwer (heavy; difficult) + der Punkt (point, dot, full stop).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,216zählento count
- 1,217der Stromelectricity, current, stream
- 1,218der Lehrerteacher
- 1,219starkenstrong
- 1,220der Schwerpunktfocus, main emphasis
- 1,221der Fehlermistake, error
- 1,222der Wettbewerbcompetition
- 1,223genanntenmentioned, named
- 1,224getroffenmet, hit, made (a decision)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,220
- The most common German nouns#439
- German B2 vocabulary#153
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#122
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.