das Lager
Meaning in English: warehouse, stock; camp
False friend: Lager is not “lager”. It is a warehouse, a stock or a camp. The beer is ein Helles or ein Lagerbier. More false friends.
Example
Die Schuhe sind leider nicht mehr auf Lager.
Unfortunately the shoes are no longer in stock.
Der, die or das?
Lager is neuter: das Lager. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Lager?
Lager is number 3,781 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 45,000 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
- 3,777die Demenzdementia
- 3,778mitbringento bring (along)
- 3,779die Unterhaltungconversation; entertainment
- 3,780fortgesetztcontinued, resumed
- 3,781das Lagerwarehouse, stock; camp
- 3,782die Mitgliedschaftmembership
- 3,783daßthat (old spelling of dass)
- 3,784belastetburdened, strained; weighs on
- 3,785Gymnasiumsof the grammar school (genitive)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,781
- The most common German nouns#1,623
- German B1 vocabulary#1,212
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#197
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.