German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Käufer
Meaning in English: buyer, purchaser
Example
Für das alte Auto gibt es schon einen Käufer.
There's already a buyer for the old car.
Der, die or das?
Käufer is masculine: der Käufer. 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 Käufer?
Käufer is number 3,844 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 46,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,840der Ruhestandretirement
- 3,841der Rufreputation, call
- 3,842die Missionmission
- 3,843Fortschritteprogress
- 3,844der Käuferbuyer, purchaser
- 3,845nächstesnext (neuter)
- 3,846die Armutpoverty
- 3,847Trendstrends
- 3,848beweisento prove
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,844
- The most common German nouns#1,659
- German B1 vocabulary#1,232
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#425
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