der Meister
Meaning in English: master (craftsman); champion
Example
Unser Verein ist wieder Meister geworden.
Our club has become champions again.
Der, die or das?
Meister is masculine: der Meister. 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 Meister?
Meister is number 2,671 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.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Meister:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,667kurzem(seit/vor kurzem) recently
- 2,668der Workshopworkshop
- 2,669verlangtdemanded, required, charged
- 2,670Vorwürfeaccusations, reproaches
- 2,671der Meistermaster (craftsman); champion
- 2,672deinemyour (dative, masc./neut.)
- 2,673frühzeitigearly, in good time
- 2,674die Millionmillion
- 2,675künstlicheartificial
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,671
- The most common German nouns#1,121
- German B1 vocabulary#866
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#298
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.