der Ehemann
Meaning in English: husband
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Family members in German list.
Example
Ihr Ehemann holt sie jeden Tag von der Arbeit ab.
Her husband picks her up from work every day.
Der, die or das?
Ehemann is masculine: der Ehemann. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Ehemann?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Ehemann appears 14 times per million words — about once every 70,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Ehemann is built from der Mann (man; husband).
Family: more words
- die Familiefamily
- die Elternparents
- die Muttermother
- der Vaterfather
- das Kindchild
- der Sohnson
- die Tochterdaughter
- der Bruderbrother
- die Schwestersister; nurse
- die Geschwistersiblings, brothers and sisters
- die Großelterngrandparents
- die Großmuttergrandmother
- der Großvatergrandfather
- die Omagrandma, granny
- der Opagrandpa, grandad
- der Enkelgrandson; grandchild
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.