German noun, masculine · CEFR B2

der Oberbürgermeister

Meaning in English: (lord) mayor

Rank 3,308 of 5,000noun · derLevel B2
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Example

Der Oberbürgermeister eröffnet morgen das Stadtfest.

The mayor opens the town festival tomorrow.

Der, die or das?

Oberbürgermeister is masculine: der Oberbürgermeister. 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 Oberbürgermeister?

Oberbürgermeister is number 3,308 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 26 times per million words — about once every 39,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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

  1. 3,304Ansprücheclaims, demands, standards
  2. 3,305die Bestätigungconfirmation
  3. 3,306versorgento supply, to look after
  4. 3,307die Trennungseparation, break-up
  5. 3,308der Oberbürgermeister(lord) mayor
  6. 3,309Absolventengraduates
  7. 3,310bewältigento cope with, to manage
  8. 3,311Bewerbungenapplications
  9. 3,312Berufeprofessions, jobs

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