German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Autorin
Meaning in English: author, writer (female)
Example
Die Autorin liest heute Abend aus ihrem neuen Roman.
The author is reading from her new novel tonight.
Der, die or das?
Autorin is feminine: die Autorin. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Autorin?
Autorin is number 3,940 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 47,000 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
- 3,936grundlegendefundamental, basic
- 3,937befragtquestioned, surveyed
- 3,938wiesowhy
- 3,939füllento fill
- 3,940die Autorinauthor, writer (female)
- 3,941das Budgetbudget
- 3,942gerettetsaved, rescued
- 3,943vorhandeneexisting, available
- 3,944austauschento exchange, to replace
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,940
- The most common German nouns#1,702
- German B1 vocabulary#1,270
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#546
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