der Sportler
Meaning in English: athlete, sportsman
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Sportler müssen im Sommer viel trinken.
Athletes have to drink a lot in summer.
Der, die or das?
Sportler is masculine: der Sportler. 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 Sportler?
Sportler is number 3,719 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 44,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,715Hotelshotels
- 3,716orientiertoriented, geared (towards)
- 3,717die Bekämpfungfight (against), combating
- 3,718feststellento find, to notice, to establish
- 3,719der Sportlerathlete, sportsman
- 3,720jüngsteyoungest; latest, most recent
- 3,721Zügetrains; moves; features
- 3,722nachweisento prove, to provide evidence of
- 3,723verwiesreferred, pointed (to)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,719
- The most common German nouns#1,596
- German A2 vocabulary#783
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#409
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.