der Lehrer
Meaning in English: teacher
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Unser Lehrer erklärt die Grammatik sehr gut.
Our teacher explains the grammar very well.
Der, die or das?
Lehrer is masculine: der Lehrer. 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.
Forms of Lehrer in the top 5,000
These forms of Lehrer are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Mit meinen Lehrern habe ich mich immer gut verstanden.
I always got on well with my teachers.
How common is Lehrer?
Lehrer is number 1,218 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 75 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Words built on Lehrer:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,214trittsteps, kicks, appears
- 1,215der Kampffight, struggle
- 1,216zählento count
- 1,217der Stromelectricity, current, stream
- 1,218der Lehrerteacher
- 1,219starkenstrong
- 1,220der Schwerpunktfocus, main emphasis
- 1,221der Fehlermistake, error
- 1,222der Wettbewerbcompetition
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,218
- The most common German nouns#438
- German A1 vocabulary#394
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#121
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.