German noun, feminine · CEFR C1

die Staatsanwaltschaft

Meaning in English: public prosecutor's office

Rank 1,291 of 5,000noun · dieLevel C1
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Example

Die Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen den Bürgermeister.

The public prosecutor's office is investigating the mayor.

Der, die or das?

Staatsanwaltschaft is feminine: die Staatsanwaltschaft. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -schaft are die in 19 of 19 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Staatsanwaltschaft?

Staatsanwaltschaft is number 1,291 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 71 times per million words — about once every 14,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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

  1. 1,287livelive
  2. 1,288tretento step, to kick
  3. 1,289übertragento broadcast, to transfer
  4. 1,290anderesother, something else
  5. 1,291die Staatsanwaltschaftpublic prosecutor's office
  6. 1,292das Gerätdevice, appliance
  7. 1,293untenbelow, downstairs
  8. 1,294genanntcalled, named, mentioned
  9. 1,295die Tatdeed, act, crime

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