die Staatsanwaltschaft
Meaning in English: public prosecutor's office
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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.
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- The 5,000 most common German words#1,291
- The most common German nouns#467
- German C1 vocabulary#25
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#163
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