der Nachfolger
Meaning in English: successor
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Wer wird sein Nachfolger als Chef?
Who will succeed him as boss?
Der, die or das?
Nachfolger is masculine: der Nachfolger. 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 Nachfolger?
Nachfolger is number 2,471 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 37 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,467Jahrhundertsof the century (genitive)
- 2,468die Bearbeitungprocessing, editing
- 2,469der Gemeinderattown council, councillor
- 2,470wächstgrows
- 2,471der Nachfolgersuccessor
- 2,472bestellenorder, book
- 2,473Inhaltencontents (dative plural)
- 2,474der Schauspieleractor
- 2,475freue(I) am glad, look forward (sich)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,471
- The most common German nouns#1,030
- German B2 vocabulary#448
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#270
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.