der Kunde
Meaning in English: customer, client
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Bei uns ist der Kunde König.
With us, the customer is king.
Der, die or das?
Kunde is masculine: der Kunde. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -e are usually die (170 of 193 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Kunde in the top 5,000
These forms of Kunde are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Der Laden hat viele treue Kunden.
The shop has lots of loyal customers.
How common is Kunde?
Kunde is number 2,650 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 34 times per million words — about once every 30,000 words. Its most frequent form is Kunden (#341).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,646GroßbritannienGreat Britain
- 2,647der Entwurfdraft, design
- 2,648wirftthrows
- 2,649SpanienSpain
- 2,650der Kundecustomer, client
- 2,651kontinuierlichcontinuous, steadily
- 2,652der Versuchattempt, try; experiment
- 2,653fortaway, gone; onward
- 2,654bestätigenconfirm
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,650
- The most common German nouns#1,110
- German A2 vocabulary#593
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#293
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.