der Fahrer
Meaning in English: driver
Example
Der Fahrer hat uns direkt vor dem Hotel abgesetzt.
The driver dropped us right outside the hotel.
Der, die or das?
Fahrer is masculine: der Fahrer. 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 Fahrer?
Fahrer is number 1,146 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 79 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Words built on Fahrer:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,142die Softwaresoftware
- 1,143die Generationgeneration
- 1,144Antwortenanswers
- 1,145gewähltelected, chosen, dialled
- 1,146der Fahrerdriver
- 1,147die Firmacompany, firm
- 1,148öffentlichepublic
- 1,149die Plattformplatform
- 1,150Lehrkräfteteachers
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,146
- The most common German nouns#409
- German A2 vocabulary#274
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#113
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.