German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Leser
Meaning in English: reader(s)
Example
Viele Leser haben uns Briefe geschrieben.
Many readers have written us letters.
Der, die or das?
Leser is masculine: der Leser. 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 Leser?
Leser is number 3,070 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 28 times per million words — about once every 35,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,066OlympischenOlympic
- 3,067hörthears, listens
- 3,068das Bündnisalliance
- 3,069normalnormal, usual
- 3,070der Leserreader(s)
- 3,071hängento hang
- 3,072das Abiturschool-leaving exam (A levels)
- 3,073fliegento fly
- 3,074solltestshould (you, informal)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,070
- The most common German nouns#1,295
- German B1 vocabulary#993
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#336
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.