der Großvater
Meaning in English: grandfather
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Family members in German list.
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Mein Großvater war früher Bäcker.
My grandfather used to be a baker.
Der, die or das?
Großvater is masculine: der Großvater. 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 Großvater?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Großvater appears 5.4 times per million words — about once every 190,000 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.
Related words in the list
Großvater is built from groß (big, large, tall) + der Vater (father).
Family: more words
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- die Muttermother
- der Vaterfather
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- der Sohnson
- die Tochterdaughter
- der Bruderbrother
- die Schwestersister; nurse
- die Geschwistersiblings, brothers and sisters
- die Großelterngrandparents
- die Großmuttergrandmother
- die Omagrandma, granny
- der Opagrandpa, grandad
- der Enkelgrandson; grandchild
- die Enkelingranddaughter
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