die Weiterbildung
Meaning in English: further training
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Die Firma bezahlt mir eine Weiterbildung.
The company is paying for my further training.
Der, die or das?
Weiterbildung is feminine: die Weiterbildung. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ung are die in 224 of 226 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Weiterbildung?
Weiterbildung is number 1,313 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 70 times per million words — about once every 14,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Weiterbildung is built from weiter (further; on, onward) + die Bildung (education; formation).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,309die Linieline, route
- 1,310der Schadendamage, harm
- 1,311plötzlichsuddenly
- 1,312nahenear, close
- 1,313die Weiterbildungfurther training
- 1,314vermeidento avoid
- 1,315der Sprecherspokesman, speaker
- 1,316verändertchanged
- 1,317Punktenpoints (dative plural)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,313
- The most common German nouns#478
- German B2 vocabulary#174
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#168
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.