der Inhaber
Meaning in English: owner, holder
Example
Der Inhaber des Ladens kennt alle Kunden persönlich.
The shop owner knows all the customers personally.
Der, die or das?
Inhaber is masculine: der Inhaber. 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 Inhaber?
Inhaber is number 4,120 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 50,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,116Gewinneprofits, winnings, prizes
- 4,117die Maschinemachine
- 4,118botoffered
- 4,119vereinzeltisolated, occasional(ly)
- 4,120der Inhaberowner, holder
- 4,121saniertrenovated, refurbished
- 4,122die Partyparty
- 4,123ausgebildettrained, qualified
- 4,124Gebäudesbuilding (genitive)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,120
- The most common German nouns#1,783
- German B2 vocabulary#960
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#458
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.