German noun, masculine · CEFR A1

der Finger

Meaning in English: finger

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · derLevel A1

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Body parts in German list.

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Example

Ich habe mir beim Kochen in den Finger geschnitten.

I cut my finger while cooking.

Der, die or das?

Finger is masculine: der Finger. 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 Finger?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Finger appears 16 times per million words — about once every 64,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.

A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

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