der Ermittler
Meaning in English: investigator(s)
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Die Ermittler suchen noch nach Zeugen.
The investigators are still looking for witnesses.
Der, die or das?
Ermittler is masculine: der Ermittler. 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 Ermittler?
Ermittler is number 3,138 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 28 times per million words — about once every 36,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,134wiederholtrepeated(ly); repeats
- 3,135beendento end, to finish
- 3,136Patientinnen(female) patients
- 3,137gewissencertain (inflected)
- 3,138der Ermittlerinvestigator(s)
- 3,139Medikamentemedicines, medication
- 3,140chinesischenChinese
- 3,141kostenlosenfree (of charge)
- 3,142normalennormal, ordinary
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,138
- The most common German nouns#1,317
- German B2 vocabulary#641
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#341
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.