der Gründer
Meaning in English: founder
Example
Der Gründer der Firma ist erst dreißig.
The company's founder is only thirty.
Der, die or das?
Gründer is masculine: der Gründer. 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 Gründer?
Gründer is number 3,249 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 26 times per million words — about once every 38,000 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.
Related words in the list
Gründer is built from grün (green).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,245Vorsitzendenchair(person), leader
- 3,246begrüßtgreeted, welcomed
- 3,247das Vorbildrole model, example
- 3,248steigendenrising
- 3,249der Gründerfounder
- 3,250mitmachento join in, to take part
- 3,251Autorenauthors
- 3,252Jahrzehntedecades
- 3,253langerlong (inflected)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,249
- The most common German nouns#1,376
- German B2 vocabulary#675
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#355
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.