German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Streik
Meaning in English: strike
Example
Morgen ist schon wieder Streik bei der Bahn.
There's another rail strike tomorrow.
Der, die or das?
Streik is masculine: der Streik. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -ik are usually die (11 of 12 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Streik?
Streik is number 4,561 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 57,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,557präsentpresent, prominent
- 4,558anlegento create, to lay out; to invest
- 4,559die Qualifizierungqualification, training
- 4,560Armearms
- 4,561der Streikstrike
- 4,562durchschnittlicheaverage
- 4,563die Hochzeitwedding
- 4,564Zusammenhängeconnections, context
- 4,565Akteurenactors, stakeholders
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,561
- The most common German nouns#1,988
- German B1 vocabulary#1,484
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#497
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