der Schüler
Meaning in English: pupil, schoolboy; pupils
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Der Schüler hat seine Hausaufgaben vergessen.
The pupil forgot his homework.
Der, die or das?
Schüler is masculine: der Schüler. 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.
Forms of Schüler in the top 5,000
These forms of Schüler are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Die Lehrerin gibt den Schülern viele Hausaufgaben.
The teacher gives the pupils lots of homework.
How common is Schüler?
Schüler is number 215 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 396 times per million words — about once every 2,500 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 51% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#215
- The 1,000 most common German words#215
- The 5,000 most common German words#215
- The most common German nouns#24
- German A1 vocabulary#145
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#4
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.