die Technik
Meaning in English: technology, technique
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Mein Vater versteht nichts von Technik.
My father knows nothing about technology.
Der, die or das?
Technik is feminine: die Technik. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ik are die in 11 of 12 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Technik in the top 5,000
These forms of Technik are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Im Kurs lernen wir verschiedene Techniken zum Entspannen.
In the course we learn various relaxation techniques.
How common is Technik?
Technik is number 901 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 98 times per million words — about once every 10,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% 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
- 897der Kriegwar
- 898größtebiggest, largest
- 899das Opfervictim; sacrifice
- 900die Hälftehalf
- 901die Techniktechnology, technique
- 902gemeinsamecommon, shared, joint
- 903laglay, was (located)
- 904machtemade, did
- 905wichtigenimportant
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#901
- The 5,000 most common German words#901
- The most common German nouns#306
- German B1 vocabulary#232
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#106
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.