der Direktor
Meaning in English: director, head teacher
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Der Direktor der Schule begrüßt die Eltern.
The school's head teacher welcomes the parents.
Der, die or das?
Direktor is masculine: der Direktor. 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 Direktor?
Direktor is number 3,603 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 43,000 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
- 3,599Profisprofessionals, pros
- 3,600globaleglobal
- 3,601der Stilstyle
- 3,602englischenEnglish
- 3,603der Direktordirector, head teacher
- 3,604das Signalsignal
- 3,605internationalerinternational
- 3,606die Richtlinieguideline, directive
- 3,607gelassencalm, relaxed, composed
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,603
- The most common German nouns#1,539
- German B1 vocabulary#1,160
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#393
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.