die Schwiegermutter
Meaning in English: mother-in-law
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Family members in German list.
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Meine Schwiegermutter kocht sehr gut.
My mother-in-law is a very good cook.
Der, die or das?
Schwiegermutter is feminine: die Schwiegermutter. 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 Schwiegermutter?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Schwiegermutter appears 1.2 times per million words — about once every 810,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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