die Schulter
Meaning in English: shoulder
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Body parts in German list.
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Er legt mir die Hand auf die Schulter.
He puts his hand on my shoulder.
Der, die or das?
Schulter is feminine: die Schulter. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -er are usually der (126 of 160 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Schulter?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Schulter appears 11 times per million words — about once every 95,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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