der Pfleger
Meaning in English: (male) nurse, carer
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Jobs in German list.
Example
Der Pfleger bringt mir ein Glas Wasser.
The nurse brings me a glass of water.
Der, die or das?
Pfleger is masculine: der Pfleger. 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 Pfleger?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Pfleger appears 4.9 times per million words — about once every 210,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Jobs: more words
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- die Lehrerin(female) teacher
- der Arztdoctor
- die Ärztin(female) doctor
- der Polizistpolice officer
- der Kochcook, chef
- der Kellnerwaiter
- der Verkäuferseller, salesperson
- die Verkäuferin(female) shop assistant
- der Ingenieurengineer
- der Anwaltlawyer
- der Journalistjournalist
- der Landwirtfarmer
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.