der Minister
Meaning in English: minister
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Der Minister besucht morgen unsere Schule.
The minister is visiting our school tomorrow.
Der, die or das?
Minister is masculine: der Minister. 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 Minister?
Minister is number 2,593 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 35 times per million words — about once every 29,000 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 Minister:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,589Mittelnmeans, funds (dative plural)
- 2,590Netzwerkennetworks (dative plural)
- 2,591Initiativeninitiatives
- 2,592erzieltachieved, scored
- 2,593der Ministerminister
- 2,594die BundesrepublikFederal Republic
- 2,595der Alkoholalcohol
- 2,596kurzfristigat short notice, short-term
- 2,597Studiengängedegree programmes
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,593
- The most common German nouns#1,085
- German B1 vocabulary#836
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#285
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.