der Kellner
Meaning in English: waiter
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Jobs in German list.
Example
Der Kellner bringt gleich die Rechnung.
The waiter will bring the bill in a moment.
Der, die or das?
Kellner is masculine: der Kellner. 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 Kellner?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Kellner appears 3.8 times per million words — about once every 260,000 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.
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- die Ärztin(female) doctor
- der Pfleger(male) nurse, carer
- der Polizistpolice officer
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- der Verkäuferseller, salesperson
- die Verkäuferin(female) shop assistant
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- der Anwaltlawyer
- der Journalistjournalist
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.