der Motor
Meaning in English: engine, motor
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Der Motor springt bei Kälte schlecht an.
The engine doesn't start well in the cold.
Der, die or das?
Motor is masculine: der Motor. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -or are der in 8 of 9 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Motor?
Motor is number 4,739 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 59,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,735überlassento leave (to sb), to hand over
- 4,736persönlichespersonal
- 4,737brachbroke (past tense)
- 4,738gescheitertfailed
- 4,739der Motorengine, motor
- 4,740Werkenworks (dative plural), plants
- 4,741Stiftungenfoundations (charitable)
- 4,742demokratischedemocratic
- 4,743ökologischeecological, organic
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,739
- The most common German nouns#2,075
- German A2 vocabulary#939
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#514
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.