der Helfer
Meaning in English: helper, volunteer
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Wir suchen noch Helfer für das Sommerfest.
We're still looking for helpers for the summer party.
Der, die or das?
Helfer is masculine: der Helfer. 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 Helfer?
Helfer is number 2,874 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 31 times per million words — about once every 33,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,870eignetis suitable (sich)
- 2,871der Einzelfallindividual case, isolated case
- 2,872pädagogischeeducational, pedagogical
- 2,873die Lieferungdelivery
- 2,874der Helferhelper, volunteer
- 2,875der Coachcoach
- 2,876eingereichtsubmitted, handed in
- 2,877der Kellercellar, basement
- 2,878heimischenlocal, native, domestic
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,874
- The most common German nouns#1,216
- German B1 vocabulary#926
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#316
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.