das System
Meaning in English: system
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Das System ist gerade abgestürzt.
The system has just crashed.
Der, die or das?
System is neuter: das System. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of System in the top 5,000
These forms of System are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die beiden Systeme sind leider nicht kompatibel.
Unfortunately, the two systems aren't compatible.
Die Nutzung des Systems ist kostenlos.
Using the system is free.
How common is System?
System is number 914 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 97 times per million words — about once every 10,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 64% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#914
- The 5,000 most common German words#914
- The most common German nouns#310
- German B1 vocabulary#238
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#37
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.