der Computer
Meaning in English: computer(s)
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Mein Computer ist schon wieder abgestürzt.
My computer has crashed again.
Der, die or das?
Computer is masculine: der Computer. 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 Computer?
Computer is number 1,972 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 46 times per million words — about once every 22,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,968kleinsmall, little
- 1,969bestehendeexisting
- 1,970Bundesof the federation (genitive)
- 1,971der Fußfoot
- 1,972der Computercomputer(s)
- 1,973der Geburtstagbirthday
- 1,974Einsatzkräfteemergency services, responders
- 1,975erhobenraised, levied, collected (data)
- 1,976der Haushalthousehold, budget
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,972
- The most common German nouns#784
- German A1 vocabulary#528
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#212
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.