die Oper
Meaning in English: opera, opera house
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Wir gehen morgen Abend in die Oper.
We're going to the opera tomorrow evening.
Der, die or das?
Oper is feminine: die Oper. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Oper?
Oper is number 4,554 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 57,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,550die Ausschreibungcall for tenders, job advert
- 4,551Wissenschaftlerinnenscientists (female)
- 4,552günstigecheap, affordable; favourable
- 4,553das Jahresendeend of the year
- 4,554die Operopera, opera house
- 4,555Klimawandelsclimate change (genitive)
- 4,556die Arbeitsgruppeworking group
- 4,557präsentpresent, prominent
- 4,558anlegento create, to lay out; to invest
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,554
- The most common German nouns#1,983
- German B1 vocabulary#1,483
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#647
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.