der Schauspieler
Meaning in English: actor
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Mein Bruder möchte später Schauspieler werden.
My brother wants to become an actor.
Der, die or das?
Schauspieler is masculine: der Schauspieler. 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 Schauspieler?
Schauspieler is number 2,474 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 36 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Schauspieler is built from die Schau (show, exhibition) + der Spieler (player(s)).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,470wächstgrows
- 2,471der Nachfolgersuccessor
- 2,472bestellenorder, book
- 2,473Inhaltencontents (dative plural)
- 2,474der Schauspieleractor
- 2,475freue(I) am glad, look forward (sich)
- 2,476freiwilligenvoluntary, volunteer
- 2,477investiereninvest
- 2,478erheblichconsiderable, considerably
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,474
- The most common German nouns#1,032
- German A2 vocabulary#561
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#271
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.