German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Roboter
Meaning in English: robot
Example
Bei uns saugt ein kleiner Roboter den Boden.
At our place a little robot vacuums the floor.
Der, die or das?
Roboter is masculine: der Roboter. 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 Roboter?
Roboter is number 4,760 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 60,000 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
- 4,756die Körperverletzungbodily harm, assault
- 4,757bestandenpassed (exam); existed
- 4,758die Geschäftsführungmanagement, executive board
- 4,759dachtethought (past tense)
- 4,760der Roboterrobot
- 4,761die Beendigungtermination, ending
- 4,762genehmigtapproved, permitted
- 4,763Protesteprotests
- 4,764Schrittensteps (dative plural)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,760
- The most common German nouns#2,085
- German B1 vocabulary#1,548
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#516
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