der Ärger
Meaning in English: trouble, annoyance, anger
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Wenn du zu spät kommst, gibt es Ärger.
If you're late, there'll be trouble.
Der, die or das?
Ärger is masculine: der Ärger. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -er are der in 126 of 160 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Ärger?
Ärger is number 4,065 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 49,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,061geringelow, small, slight
- 4,062kreativcreative
- 4,063Fachleuteexperts, specialists
- 4,064die Arbeitszeitworking hours
- 4,065der Ärgertrouble, annoyance, anger
- 4,066anerkanntenrecognised, accredited
- 4,067der Versandshipping, dispatch
- 4,068mehrererof several (genitive)
- 4,069Landkreisedistricts, counties
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,065
- The most common German nouns#1,759
- German B1 vocabulary#1,314
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#448
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.