German noun, masculine · CEFR A2
der Musiker
Meaning in English: musician(s)
Example
Der Musiker spielt jeden Abend in der Bar.
The musician plays in the bar every evening.
Der, die or das?
Musiker is masculine: der Musiker. 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 Musiker?
Musiker is number 2,261 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,257der Vordergrundforeground
- 2,258rausout (colloquial)
- 2,259positivenpositive (inflected)
- 2,260Umständencircumstances (dative plural)
- 2,261der Musikermusician(s)
- 2,262beteiligento take part; to involve
- 2,263rotered (inflected)
- 2,264die Orientierungorientation, guidance
- 2,265überzeugento convince, to persuade
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,261
- The most common German nouns#934
- German A2 vocabulary#524
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#244
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.