German noun, masculine · CEFR B1

der Bachelor

Meaning in English: bachelor's degree

Rank 3,728 of 5,000noun · derLevel B1
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Example

Sie macht gerade ihren Bachelor in Informatik.

She's doing her bachelor's in computer science.

Der, die or das?

Bachelor is masculine: der Bachelor. 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.

How common is Bachelor?

Bachelor is number 3,728 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 44,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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

  1. 3,724krankill, sick
  2. 3,725angemessenappropriate, reasonable
  3. 3,726dankbargrateful, thankful
  4. 3,727liebsten(am liebsten) most of all, best
  5. 3,728der Bachelorbachelor's degree
  6. 3,729innereinner, internal
  7. 3,730Zielengoals, targets (dative pl.)
  8. 3,731jährlichenannual, yearly
  9. 3,732konzentriertfocused, concentrated

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