der Außenminister
Meaning in English: foreign minister
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Der Außenminister reist morgen nach Paris.
The foreign minister travels to Paris tomorrow.
Der, die or das?
Außenminister is masculine: der Außenminister. 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 Außenminister?
Außenminister is number 4,573 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 57,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Außenminister is built from außen (outside, on the outside) + der Minister (minister).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,569ärztlichemedical, doctor's
- 4,570umgekehrtthe other way round, vice versa
- 4,571nutzbarusable
- 4,572verkündetannounced, proclaimed
- 4,573der Außenministerforeign minister
- 4,574der Gottesdienstchurch service
- 4,575musikalischenmusical
- 4,576unterrichtento teach
- 4,577zweierof two (genitive)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,573
- The most common German nouns#1,994
- German B2 vocabulary#1,114
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#499
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.