German noun, feminine · CEFR A1

die Lehrerin

Meaning in English: (female) teacher

Basic word, outside the top 5,000noun · dieLevel A11 form in the top 5,000

Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Jobs in German list.

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Example

Unsere Lehrerin kommt aus Spanien.

Our teacher comes from Spain.

Der, die or das?

Lehrerin is feminine: die Lehrerin. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Lehrerin in the top 5,000

Lehrerin itself is not in the top 5,000, but this form of it is:

Lehrerinnen#3,243
(female) teachersA1

An unserer Schule gibt es mehr Lehrerinnen als Lehrer.
Our school has more female than male teachers.

How common is Lehrerin?

In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Lehrerin appears 15 times per million words — about once every 67,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form Lehrerinnen (#3,243) is in the top 5,000, though.

A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.

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