er
Meaning in English: he, it (masculine)
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Er kommt immer zu spät.
He is always late.
Forms of er in the top 5,000
These forms of er are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Hast du ihn heute schon gesehen?
Have you seen him today?
Ich habe ihm ein Buch geschenkt.
I gave him a book.
How common is er?
er is number 43 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 2,902 times per million words — about once every 340 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 36% 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
In these word lists
- The 100 most common German words#43
- The 500 most common German words#43
- The 1,000 most common German words#43
- The 5,000 most common German words#43
- German A1 vocabulary#42
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.