die Wissenschaft
Meaning in English: science
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Meine Tochter will später in die Wissenschaft gehen.
My daughter wants to go into science later.
Der, die or das?
Wissenschaft is feminine: die Wissenschaft. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -schaft are die in 19 of 19 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Wissenschaft in the top 5,000
These forms of Wissenschaft are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Sie interessiert sich für die Wissenschaften, vor allem Biologie.
She's interested in the sciences, especially biology.
How common is Wissenschaft?
Wissenschaft is number 1,039 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 87 times per million words — about once every 11,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 65% 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
- 1,035die Bankbank, bench
- 1,036hierzuon this, for this
- 1,037wendento turn
- 1,038weitererfurther, another
- 1,039die Wissenschaftscience
- 1,040fordertdemands, calls for
- 1,041täglichdaily, every day
- 1,042funktioniertworks, functions
- 1,043der Anteilshare, proportion
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,039
- The most common German nouns#359
- German B1 vocabulary#290
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#127
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.