der Student
Meaning in English: (university) student
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Jobs in German list.
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Er ist Student an der Uni Köln.
He's a student at Cologne University.
Der, die or das?
Student is masculine: der Student. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Student in the top 5,000
Student itself is not in the top 5,000, but this form of it is:
Viele Studenten wohnen hier in WGs.
Many students here live in shared flats.
How common is Student?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Student appears 11 times per million words — about once every 88,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million. Its form Studenten (#2,400) is in the top 5,000, though.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.