der Autor
Meaning in English: author, writer
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Der Autor liest heute Abend in der Buchhandlung.
The author is giving a reading at the bookshop tonight.
Der, die or das?
Autor is masculine: der Autor. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -or are der in 8 of 9 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Autor in the top 5,000
These forms of Autor are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Auf der Messe lesen bekannte Autoren aus ihren Büchern.
Well-known authors read from their books at the fair.
How common is Autor?
Autor is number 2,336 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 39 times per million words — about once every 26,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,332überprüftchecked, verified
- 2,333Teststests
- 2,334die Kampagnecampaign
- 2,335überwiegendmainly, predominantly
- 2,336der Autorauthor, writer
- 2,337die Adresseaddress
- 2,338die Summesum, amount
- 2,339notwendigenecessary (inflected)
- 2,340erreichbarreachable, accessible
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,336
- The most common German nouns#966
- German B1 vocabulary#753
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#252
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.