German noun, neuter · CEFR B2
das Opfer
Meaning in English: victim; sacrifice
Example
Er wurde Opfer eines Betrugs.
He fell victim to a scam.
Der, die or das?
Opfer is neuter: das Opfer. 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 Opfer?
Opfer is number 899 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 98 times per million words — about once every 10,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 63% 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
- 895das Auslandabroad, foreign countries
- 896Chancenchances, opportunities
- 897der Kriegwar
- 898größtebiggest, largest
- 899das Opfervictim; sacrifice
- 900die Hälftehalf
- 901die Techniktechnology, technique
- 902gemeinsamecommon, shared, joint
- 903laglay, was (located)
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#899
- The 5,000 most common German words#899
- The most common German nouns#304
- German B2 vocabulary#97
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#35
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