die Türkei
Meaning in English: Turkey
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Meine Eltern kommen aus der Türkei.
My parents are from Turkey.
Der, die or das?
Türkei is feminine: die Türkei. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ei are die in 5 of 5 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Türkei?
Türkei is number 1,834 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 50 times per million words — about once every 20,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,830zuständigeresponsible, relevant
- 1,831der Ratadvice; council
- 1,832Kartencards, tickets, maps
- 1,833der Chefboss
- 1,834die TürkeiTurkey
- 1,835nähercloser, nearer; more closely
- 1,836bestehendenexisting
- 1,837besonderesspecial, particular
- 1,838bewegento move
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,834
- The most common German nouns#729
- German A1 vocabulary#511
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#251
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.