der Empfänger
Meaning in English: recipient, receiver
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Der Empfänger war leider nicht zu Hause.
Unfortunately the recipient wasn't at home.
Der, die or das?
Empfänger is masculine: der Empfänger. 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 Empfänger?
Empfänger is number 4,077 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 49,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,073menschlichehuman
- 4,074BrasilienBrazil
- 4,075die Nationalmannschaftnational team
- 4,076geäußertexpressed, voiced
- 4,077der Empfängerrecipient, receiver
- 4,078getretenkicked, stepped
- 4,079ökologischenecological, organic
- 4,080die Dateifile (computer)
- 4,081denkbarconceivable, possible
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,077
- The most common German nouns#1,765
- German B1 vocabulary#1,319
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#451
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.