German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Richter
Meaning in English: judge(s)
Example
Der Richter hat das Urteil gesprochen.
The judge has passed the sentence.
Der, die or das?
Richter is masculine: der Richter. 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 Richter?
Richter is number 2,139 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 43 times per million words — about once every 23,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,139
- The most common German nouns#875
- German B2 vocabulary#353
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#234
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