German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Kapitän
Meaning in English: captain
Example
Der Kapitän begrüßt die Passagiere an Bord.
The captain welcomes the passengers on board.
Der, die or das?
Kapitän is masculine: der Kapitän. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Kapitän?
Kapitän is number 3,176 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 27 times per million words — about once every 37,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,172kommunalemunicipal, local
- 3,173die Kreativitätcreativity
- 3,174die Immobilieproperty, real estate
- 3,175Quellensources; springs
- 3,176der Kapitäncaptain
- 3,177anpassento adapt, to adjust
- 3,178die Spurtrace, track, lane
- 3,179Händenhands (dative plural)
- 3,180nochmalagain, once more
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,176
- The most common German nouns#1,335
- German B1 vocabulary#1,031
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#346
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.