die Universität
Meaning in English: university
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Meine Schwester studiert an der Universität Wien.
My sister studies at the University of Vienna.
Der, die or das?
Universität is feminine: die Universität. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -tät are die in 12 of 12 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Universität in the top 5,000
These forms of Universität are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In Deutschland kosten die meisten Universitäten keine Studiengebühren.
Most universities in Germany charge no tuition fees.
How common is Universität?
Universität is number 367 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 236 times per million words — about once every 4,200 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 56% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#367
- The 1,000 most common German words#367
- The 5,000 most common German words#367
- The most common German nouns#67
- German A2 vocabulary#86
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#19
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.