die Schwester
Meaning in English: sister; nurse
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Meine Schwester wohnt in Hamburg.
My sister lives in Hamburg.
Der, die or das?
Schwester is feminine: die Schwester. 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 Schwester?
Schwester is number 3,563 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 42,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,559interneninternal
- 3,560vorübergehendtemporary, temporarily
- 3,561das Eventevent
- 3,562natürlichenatural
- 3,563die Schwestersister; nurse
- 3,564Vorträgetalks, lectures
- 3,565die Ausrichtungfocus, orientation; hosting
- 3,566produzierento produce
- 3,567die Reichweiterange, reach
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,563
- The most common German nouns#1,522
- German A1 vocabulary#687
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#500
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.