German noun, feminine · CEFR B2

die Tätigkeit

Meaning in English: activity, job, occupation

Rank 1,182 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B22 forms in the list
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Example

Welche Tätigkeit üben Sie zurzeit aus?

What job are you currently doing?

Der, die or das?

Tätigkeit is feminine: die Tätigkeit. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -keit are die in 15 of 15 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Tätigkeit in the top 5,000

These forms of Tätigkeit are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Tätigkeiten#2,735
activities, tasksB2

Welche Tätigkeiten gehören zu Ihrem Job?
What tasks does your job involve?

How common is Tätigkeit?

Tätigkeit is number 1,182 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 76 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.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 1,178Materialienmaterials
  2. 1,179einzigeonly, single
  3. 1,180der Bauconstruction, building
  4. 1,181enthältcontains
  5. 1,182die Tätigkeitactivity, job, occupation
  6. 1,183schwerenheavy, serious, difficult
  7. 1,184die Anwendungapplication, use
  8. 1,185der Mietertenant
  9. 1,186Grenzenborders, limits

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