der Sender
Meaning in English: (TV/radio) station, channel
False friend: Sender is not “sender”. It is a TV or radio station. The sender of a letter is der Absender. More false friends.
Example
Auf welchem Sender läuft das Spiel?
Which channel is the match on?
Der, die or das?
Sender is masculine: der Sender. 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 Sender?
Sender is number 3,203 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 27 times per million words — about once every 37,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,199aufgefordertasked, called upon
- 3,200der Gewinnerwinner
- 3,201aufeinanderon/to each other
- 3,202Maschinenmachines
- 3,203der Sender(TV/radio) station, channel
- 3,204die Aktieshare, stock
- 3,205der Kerncore, pip, kernel
- 3,206musstmust, have to (you, informal)
- 3,207das Blutblood
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,203
- The most common German nouns#1,350
- German B1 vocabulary#1,042
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#349
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.