der Bürgermeister
Meaning in English: mayor
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Der Bürgermeister eröffnet morgen das Stadtfest.
The mayor opens the town festival tomorrow.
Der, die or das?
Bürgermeister is masculine: der Bürgermeister. 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 Bürgermeister?
Bürgermeister is number 800 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 111 times per million words — about once every 9,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Bürgermeister is built from der Bürger (citizen(s)) + der Meister (master (craftsman); champion).
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#800
- The 5,000 most common German words#800
- The most common German nouns#257
- German B1 vocabulary#202
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#73
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.