der Professor
Meaning in English: professor
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Unser Professor erklärt alles sehr anschaulich.
Our professor explains everything very clearly.
Der, die or das?
Professor is masculine: der Professor. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -or are der in 8 of 9 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Professor?
Professor is number 2,200 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 41 times per million words — about once every 24,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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- The 5,000 most common German words#2,200
- The most common German nouns#903
- German B1 vocabulary#704
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#238
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.