German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Ersatz
Meaning in English: replacement, substitute
Example
Als Ersatz bekommen Sie einen Gutschein.
You'll get a voucher as a replacement.
Der, die or das?
Ersatz is masculine: der Ersatz. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Ersatz?
Ersatz is number 4,248 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 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
- 4,244die Distanzdistance
- 4,245eueryour (plural, informal)
- 4,246der Empfangreception, signal
- 4,247der Krebscancer, crab
- 4,248der Ersatzreplacement, substitute
- 4,249die Berufsausbildungvocational training
- 4,250die Spannungsuspense, tension, voltage
- 4,251drininside, in it (colloquial)
- 4,252herausragendeoutstanding
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,248
- The most common German nouns#1,844
- German B1 vocabulary#1,382
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#472
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