German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Steuer
Meaning in English: tax (die); steering wheel (das)
Example
Auf Zigaretten zahlt man eine hohe Steuer.
You pay a high tax on cigarettes.
Der, die or das?
Steuer is feminine: die Steuer. 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 Steuer?
Steuer is number 4,459 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 55,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,455Damenladies
- 4,456stürztefell, crashed; overthrew
- 4,457erforderlicherequired, necessary
- 4,458Textentexts
- 4,459die Steuertax (die); steering wheel (das)
- 4,460Emotionenemotions
- 4,461nachfolgendenfollowing, subsequent
- 4,462angehtconcerns; tackles
- 4,463NiederlandenNetherlands (dative)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,459
- The most common German nouns#1,939
- German B1 vocabulary#1,457
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#632
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